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
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