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Marsilio Ficino in Central Europe State of Preparations September 1997 The conference on Marsilio Ficino in Central Europe will be held from Sunday 3rd to Tuesday 5th May 1998, organized by Peter Pazmany Catholic University Budapest in cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Florence, and the Centre Superieur d'Etudes de la Renaissance, Tours. The Budapest conference will give special emphasis to the presence of Ficino in Central Europe (i.e. Hungary, Austria, Bohemia, Poland of that time). This includes also neoplatonic influences in later centuries. The organizers are working on getting funds for this conference, however they kindly recommand to all participants to apply for subsidies at their local institutions. The venue will be the Campus of the Peter Pazmany Catholic University in Piliscsaba near Budapest and partly in Budapest. Because of the great number of papers announced, speakers a kindly requested to limit their presentations to 30 minutes reading time including discussion. Conference languages will be: Italian, English, French and German. Further details will be announced in due time. Speakers to date: Albertini Tamara, Hawaii Allen Michael J. B., Los Angeles Birnbaum Marianna D., Los Angeles Blum Paul Richard, Piliscaba: Neuplatonischer Synkretismus bei Antonio Zara in Istrien Ebbersmeyer Sabrina, Muenchen: Psychologische Analysen der Liebe von Ficino zu Patrizi Facca Danilo, Warszawa: The role of Platonic and Neoplatonic tradition in the Academy of Zamosc during the first decades of the XVIIth century - the commentary on Plato's Timaeus by Szymon Birkowski (1574-1626) Gosselin Edward, Long Beach CA Hajnoczi Gabor, Piliscsaba: A pupil Ficino's in the court of Matthias Corvinus: Francesco Bandini Jankovits Jozsef, Budapest Hejnic Jozef, Praha: Marsilio Ficino und Boehmen Karfik Filip, Praha: Ficinos Praesenz in Boehmen im 15./16. Jahrhundert Kuczinska Alicija, Warszawa: The figure of Platonic chora in Ficino's Philosophy Pajorin Klara, Budapest: La polenica fra Varadi Janos (Johannes Pannonius) e Marsilio Ficino Pal Jozsef, Roma: La poetica dell'immortalita dell'anima Szoenyi Gyoergy E., Szeged: Ficino's Talismanic Magic and John Dee's Hieroglyphic Monad Rees Valery, London Szoerenyi Laszlo, Budapest Vasoli Cesare, Firenze For further information please contact: Prof. Dr. Paul Richard Blum Pazmany Peter Katolikus Egyetem, Budapest Egyetem u. 1 H-2081 Piliscsaba Hungary Tel./Fax: +36-26-375375 e-mail: [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%