*PLEASE NOTE A CHANGE OF DATE, TIME AND VENUE*
The event is now taking place on the 27 November 2025 at 6.00pm at Francesca’s House.
Join us for a talk by Alberto Bragho’ “Aristotle and the Italian Renaissance” at Francesca’s House.
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath of the 4th century BCE, whose writings laid the foundation for much of Western philosophy and science. A student of Plato and tutor to Alexander the Great, he explored subjects ranging from logic and ethics to biology and politics, shaping intellectual thought for centuries.
The Italian Renaissance was the rebirth of intellectual and artistic appreciation of the ancient classical Graeco-Roman culture. It gave rise to the “modern individual “, as well as to the social and cultural institutions that define the Western world today.
Jacob Burckhardt says that, during the Renaissance, “man was conscious of himself “and did not live “in function of something else, as during the Middle Ages”. Through the translations of Aristotle’s works by Cassiodorus, Boethius, and Averroes, the Greek philosopher’s Ethics and Logic—seen as systematic human action for the benefit of the community—became the foundation of the studia humanitatis, which strongly influenced the cultural movement of the Renaissance in Europe.”
