Abstract

In the first part of the paper I shall discuss some difficulties and problems in the historiography of Renaissance philosophy arising from a gap between some assumptions and preconceptions concerning this period on the one hand, and historical and archival evidences on the other. The need for a new historiography arises both from the publication of new sources which have not yet been discussed with sufficient scholarly attention and from a new approach to the Renaissance and its place in the intellectual and cultural history in the transition from the Middle-Ages to the early modern era. In the second part I shall present three scholastic thinkers of the Renaissance: Antoninus Pierozzi and the concept of conscience; Giorgio Benigno Salviati and the concept of will; Lorenzo Pisano and the concept of love. I shall try to demonstrate their contribution and importance to philosophical and theological discussions pertaining to moral psychology.