The theology of Lorenzo Valla / John Monfasani -- Renaissance Latin translations of the Greek commentaries on Aristotle / Charles H. Lohr -- From Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples to Giulio Landi : uses of the dialogue in Renaissance Aristotelianism / Luca Bianchi -- The adoption and rejection of Aristotelian moral philosophy in Reformed 'casuistry' / M.W.F. Stone -- The relationship of Stoicism and scepticism : Justus Lipsius / A.H.T. Levi -- 'Ethnicorum omnium sanctissimus' : Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations from Xylander to Diderot / Jill Kraye -- The myth of Francis Bacon's 'anti-humanism' / Brian Vickers -- 'Delicate learning', erudition and the enterprise of philosophy / J.R. Milton -- Grandeur and the mechanical philosophy / Susan James -- Renaissance humanism, lingering Aristotelianism and the new natural philosophy : Gassendi on final causes / Margaret J. Osler -- Galileo, Ficino and Renaissance Platonism / James Hankins -- Humanist Platonism in seventeenth-century Germany / Christia Mercer.