Pablo Maurette
Biographic Data
| ID | 5920564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Maurette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo |
| FAMILY NAME | Maurette |
| SIGNATURE | MAURETTE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5895-9316 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Organ of Organs
Plato’s Hermaphrodite and a Vindication of the Sense of Touch in the Sixteenth Century
This essay considers readings of Plato’s Symposium in sixteenth-century trattati d’amore (love treatises) — especially Francesco Patrizi’s L’amorosa filosofia — that offer an alternative to Marsilio Ficino’s pervasive interpretation as presented in his De amore. Against the backdrop of a larger debate concerning the role of the lower senses (touch, in particular) and the relationship between body and soul, these alternative readings of the Sympos…
De rerum textura
This article explores the substantive influence that Lucretius's poem De rerum natura had on Girolamo Fracastoro's (1478–1553) theory of contagion. Perhaps the first early modern intellectual to systematically adopt Lucretius's experiential epistemology, Fracastoro was also one of the very few who picked up on Lucretius's insistency on the crucial importance of tactility. Tactus is, for Lucretius, not only the bodily sense par excellence, but als…
Plato’s Hermaphrodite and a Vindication of the Sense of Touch in the Sixteenth Century
This essay considers readings of Plato’s Symposium in sixteenth-century trattati d’amore (love treatises) — especially Francesco Patrizi’s L’amorosa filosofia — that offer an alternative to Marsilio Ficino’s pervasive interpretation as presented in his De amore. Against the backdrop of a larger debate concerning the role of the lower senses (touch, in particular) and the relationship between body and soul, these alternative readings of the Sympos…
De rerum textura
This article explores the substantive influence that Lucretius's poem De rerum natura had on Girolamo Fracastoro's (1478–1553) theory of contagion. Perhaps the first early modern intellectual to systematically adopt Lucretius's experiential epistemology, Fracastoro was also one of the very few who picked up on Lucretius's insistency on the crucial importance of tactility. Tactus is, for Lucretius, not only the bodily sense par excellence, but als…
Plato’s Hermaphrodite and a Vindication of the Sense of Touch in the Sixteenth Century
This essay considers readings of Plato’s Symposium in sixteenth-century trattati d’amore (love treatises) — especially Francesco Patrizi’s L’amorosa filosofia — that offer an alternative to Marsilio Ficino’s pervasive interpretation as presented in his De amore. Against the backdrop of a larger debate concerning the role of the lower senses (touch, in particular) and the relationship between body and soul, these alternative readings of the Sympos…
The Organ of Organs
Art (2 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (2 works) · History of Medicine Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Reading (process (2 works) · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (2 works) · Art history (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)