Philosophy on the defensive : Marsilio Ficino's response in a time of religious turmoil / Valery Rees -- Ficino, Plotinus, and the chameleonic soul / Anna Corrias -- Healing rituals and their philosophical significance in Marsilio Ficino's philosophy / Guido Giglioni -- A Platonic light metaphysics between St. Augustine and Ficino : Girolamo Seripando's Quaestiones CIX De re philosophico-theologica / Angelo Maria Vitale -- The letter of Lysis to Hipparchus in the Renaissance / Eva Del Soldato -- Niccolò Leonico Tomeo's accounts of veridical dreams and the Idola of Synesius / Nicholas Holland -- The Platonic stain : origen, philosophy and censorship between the Renaissance and the Counter Reformation / Pasquale Terracciano -- Francisco de Hollanda on artistic creation, the origin of ideas, and demiurgic painting / Paula Oliveira e Silva -- 'Platonic-Hermetic' Jacob Böhme, or : is Böhme a Platonist? / Cecilia Muratori -- The theory of ideal objects and relations in the Cambridge Platonists (Rust, More, and Cudworth) / Brunello Lotti -- Platonism, metaphysics, and modern science : Rüdiger and Swedenborg / Francesca Maria Crasta -- Schelling and Plato : the idea of the world-soul in Schelling's Timaeus / Laura Follesa -- On the phenomenological 'reactivation' or 'repetition' of Plato's Dialogues by Leo Strauss / Pierpaolo Ciccarelli -- Care of the self and politics : Michel Foucault, heir of a forgotten Plato? / Laura Candiotto -- Dialectic in Plato's Sophist and Derrida's 'law of the supplement of copula' / Arnold Oberhammer -- Image and copy in French deconstruction of Platonism / Andrea Le Moli.