Eugenio Garin, b. 1909


Biography

Garin has been Professor of the History of Philosphy at the University of Florence since 1939.

Annotated Bibliography

Il rinascimento italiano. Milano: Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale, 1941.
The first of a long list of exceptional contributions, of which only a few are available in English.

Italian humanism; philosophy and civic life in the Renaissance, trans. by Peter Munz. New York: Harper & Row, 1947/1965.
Contains an excellent outline of the origins of humanism from Petrarcha, two chapters on Platonism, and a chapter on Bruno and Campanella.

Science and Civic Life in the Italian Renaissance, 1965/1969.
Final chapter on magic and astrology.

Portraits from the Quattrocento; trans. by Victor A. and Elizabeth Velen. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Astrology in the Renaissance: the zodiac of life; trans. by Carolyn Jackson and June Allen; translation revised in conjunction with the author by Clare Robertson. London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.

Revd by Ralph H Abraham, 21 Nov 2000