CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
Jacomien Prins and Maude Vanhaelen
Part I: Ancient and Medieval sources
1. Eight Singing Sirens: Heavenly Harmonies in Plato and the Neoplatonists
Francesco Pelosi
2. Latin and Arabic Ideas of Sympathetic Vibration as the Causes of Effects between Heaven and Earth
Charles Burnett
3. Theory of Cosmic Harmony in Jewish and Muslim Sources
Amnon Shiloah
4. Medieval Variations on a Cosmic Theme
Gabriela Currie
5. Therout com so gret a noyse : The Harmony of the Spheres and Chaucerian Poetics
Wolfram Keller
Part II: The Revival of the Doctrine of the Pythagorean Harmony of the Universe in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Italy and Germany
6. Cosmic Harmony, Demons, and the Mnemonic Power of Music in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Marsilio Ficino
Maude Vanhaelen
7. Francesco Giorgi on the Harmony of the Creation and the Catholic Censorship of His Views
Leen Spruit
8. Francesco Patrizi and the Weakest Echo of the Harmony of the Spheres
Jacomien Prins
9. The Reception of Ficinos Theory of World Harmony in Germany
Grantley McDonald
Part III: The Tradition of the Harmony of tlS2