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A personified force or goddess representing the unpredictability of human fate and the cyclical nature of luck. In Renaissance thought, the struggle between Virtù (human agency) and Fortuna was a central theme in ethics and political philosophy.
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Other entities that appear in the same books as Fortune.
Appears in 401 Books
Dante Alighieri; Landino, Christophoro (commentator)
Ramon Llull; ed. Bernardus la Vinheta
Boethius; comm. Thomas Waleys
Plato; trans. Marsilio Ficino
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Cristoforo Landino
Francesco Petrarca
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (trans. Donato da Casentino)
Giovanni Boccaccio
Rene Descartes
Eckartshausen, Karl von
[Belin, Jean Albert]
Hermes Trismegistus
More, Thomas
Augurellus, Johannes Aurelius
Boethius / I.T.
Giordano Bruno
Jacobus de Cessolis
Leon Battista Alberti
Lucian of Samosata (trans. H.W. & F.G. Fowler)
Thucydides
Cristoforo Landino
Nicephorus Gregoras
Poggio Bracciolini
Francesco Petrarca
Rudolf Hercher
Seneca; Bouillet (ed.)
Seneca; Bouillet (ed.)
Seneca; Bouillet (ed.)
Juvenal (ed. Robert Estienne)
Vincent of Beauvais
Henri II Estienne
Lucan (ed. Robert Estienne)
Ammianus Marcellinus (ed. Robert Estienne)
Elias Schedius
Daniel Heinsius
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Andrea Alciato
Justus Lipsius
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Viridarium Chymicum
Lucian of Samosata
Joannes Stobaeus (ed. Augustus Meineke)
Philo of Alexandria; Turnebe; Hoeschel (eds.)
Bacon, Francis
Giovanni Aurelio Augurello
Marsilio Ficino
Giovanni Pontano
Giovanni Pontano
Coluccio Salutati
Torquato Tasso (trans. Edward Fairfax, ed. Henry Morley)
Silius Italicus (trans. J.D. Duff)
Macrobius; ed. Franz Eyssenhardt
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Matthew Paris; Bernardus Silvestris (attributed)
Francesco Petrarca (ed. Giuseppe Fracassetti)
Francesco Petrarca
Joannes Stobaeus (ed. Wilhelm Canter)
Francesco Petrarca (ed. Alexander Fraser Nairn)
Bacon, Roger
Pierre Gassendi
Francesco Petrarca (ed. Luigi Pingaud)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca / Erasmus (ed.)
Plautus
Sallust
Balde, Jakob
Plutarch
Alcabitius (Al-Qabisi)
Sir Thomas Browne
Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
Flavius Josephus (ed. Hudson & Havercampus)
Sibylla (ed. Castellion)
Macrobius
Roemer Visscher
Pietro Bembo
Dante Alighieri
Plutarch; trans. Bernadotte Perrin
Paul Estienne (ed.)
Baruch Spinoza
Boethius
Plutarch; trans. Bernadotte Perrin
Juvenal
Petronius Arbiter (ed. Franz Buecheler)
Plutarch; trans. W. C. Helmbold
Lucian of Samosata
Plutarch; trans. Bernadotte Perrin
Apuleius
Anonymous
Euripides; Sophocles; Aristophanes
Hesiod; Theognis
Pliny the Elder
Manuel Chrysoloras; Guarino Veronese
Niccolò Machiavelli
Euripides
Erasmus (printed by Robert Estienne)
Baruch Spinoza
Giorgio Vasari
Pliny the Elder
William Cureton
Lucian (ed. Robert Estienne)
Procopius of Caesarea
Giovanni Boccaccio
Boethius
Plutarch; trans. Bernadotte Perrin
Giordano Bruno
Juvenal; Persius
Plotinus; Maximus of Tyre
Maximus of Tyre; Alcinous
Pliny the Elder
Lactantius
Castiglione, Baldassare
Apuleius
Curtius Rufus
Roemer Visscher
Dante Alighieri
Nicephorus Blemmydes
Demosthenes; Lysias; Synesius
William Caxton
Sophocles; Hesiod; Euripides; Aeschylus
Vespasiano da Bisticci
Aemilius Baehrens
Henri II Estienne (ed.)
Theodore Metochites
Apuleius
Valerius Maximus
Philostratus & Eunapius
Aldus Manutius (editor)
Aretino, Pietro
Boethius
Plutarch; trans. Frank Cole Babbitt
Mendoça, Francisco de
Roger Bacon
Various Authors
Valerius Maximus
Jacob Cats
John Philoponus
Thucydides
Anonymous (anti-Spinoza)
Plutarch; ed. Friedrich Dübner
Euripides
Plutarch; ed. Theodor Doehner
Henri II Estienne (ed.)
Girolamo Cardano
Bacon, Francis
Pliny the Elder
Schneersohn, Menahem Mendel, 1789-1866
Janus Lascaris (ed.)
Poliziano, Angelo
Ioannes Tzetzes
Procopius of Caesarea
Pliny the Elder
Tiruvalluvar (ed. Mrugesa Mudaliyar, trans. John Lazarus)
Giambattista Marino
Francesco Petrarca
Giovanni Boccaccio
Theodore Metochites; ed. C.G. Müller & T. Kiessling
Valerius Maximus
Marcus Junianus Justinus
Aristophanes
Diels, Hermann
Emanuel Swedenborg
Cicero; Boethius; Macrobius; Seneca
Giovanni Boccaccio (German trans.)
Various (Bede, Pseudo-Ptolemy, Masha'allah, Avicenna)
Emanuel Swedenborg
Benedictus de Spinoza
Boethius / I.T.
Landino, Cristoforo
Francesco Guicciardini
Friedrich Creuzer
Robert Burton
Callimachus
Plotinus; Porphyry
Theodore Metochites
Herodotus; Plutarch; Gemistus Plethon
Diodorus Siculus
Anonymous
Cellini, Benvenuto
George of Trebizond
Theophylact Simocatta; George Sphrantzes; George of Trebizond
[Lorris, Guillaume de]|[Meung, Jean de]
Mornay, Philippe de
[Hall, Joseph]
Manzolli, Pietro Angelo
[Fumée, Martin]
Maximus of Tyre
Daniel Heinsius
Mornay, Philippe de
Giovanni Pontano
Angelo Poliziano
Plutarch; ed. Friedrich Dübner
Theodore Metochites
Aristotle; Johannes Argyropoulos
Aldus Manutius (editor)
Coluccio Salutati
Henri II Estienne (ed.)
Plato; Ficino, Marsilio (translator)
Anonymous
Baruch Spinoza
Aretino, Pietro
Guarinoni, Hippolytus
Manuel Chrysoloras; Guarino Veronese
Mornay, Philippe de
Various Greek Poets
Angelo Poliziano
Hugh of Santalla
Mornay, Philippe de
Rudolf Hercher
Galen; Karl Gottlob Kühn (ed.)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Theatrum Sympatheticum
Girolamo Cardano
Erasmus of Rotterdam & Thomas More
Giovanni Pontano (ed. Pietro Summonte)
Angelo Poliziano
Michael Scot
Elias Schedius
Theodore Metochites; ed. C.G. Müller & T. Kiessling
Leonardo da Vinci
Roemer Visscher
Giambattista Marino
Various (Galen, Hippocrates, et al.)
Giordano Bruno
Cristoforo Landino
Poggio Bracciolini
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Plutarch; ed. Gregorios N. Bernardakis
Coluccio Salutati; ed. Francesco Novati
Aemilius Baehrens
Leonardo Bruni; Hermes Trismegistus
Plato; Marsilio Ficino (translator)
[Lorris, Guillaume de]|[Meung, Jean de]
Dante Alighieri
Lucan (ed. Robert Estienne)
Apuleius
Euripides; Sophocles; Aristophanes
Leon Battista Alberti
Polybius; Herodianus; Heliodorus
Maximus of Tyre; Alcinous
Pausanias; tr. Thomas Taylor
Francis Bacon
Francesco Petrarca (ed. Luigi Pingaud)
Apuleius; tr. Thomas Taylor
William Caxton
Justin & Florus
Julius Firmicus Maternus; Nicolaus Prugner (ed.)