Volti della fortuna. Note su un dibattito rinascimentale

(The Faces of Fortune: Notes on a Renaissance Debate)

Abstract

This essay offers some thoughts on the Renaissance debate about fortune, a topic which expresses a common belief and involves the fundamental philosophical question of human destiny and actions. Fortune is in fact used to describe the relation between human beings and contingency. The goal of the essay is to propose some examples of how “Fortuna” is present in Renaissance philosophy.