The Neoplatonism of Marsilio Ficino and English Renaissance Literature
Author | : Rex Howard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rex Howard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Denis J.-J. Robichaud |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2018-01-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0812294726 |
In 1484, humanist philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino published the first complete Latin translation of Plato's extant works. Students of Plato now had access to the entire range of the dialogues, which revealed to Renaissance audiences the rich ancient landscape of myths, allegories, philosophical arguments, etymologies, fragments of poetry, other works of philosophy, aspects of ancient pagan religious practices, concepts of mathematics and natural philosophy, and the dialogic nature of the Platonic corpus's interlocutors. By and large, Renaissance readers in the Latin West encountered Plato's text through Ficino's translations and interpretation. In Plato's Persona, Denis J.-J. Robichaud provides the first synthetic study of Ficino's interpretation of the Platonic corpus. Robichaud analyzes Plato's works in their original Greek and in Ficino's Latin translations, as well as Ficino's non-Platonic writings and correspondence, in the process uncovering new aspects of Ficino's intellectual work habits. In his letters and works, Ficino self-consciously imitated a Platonic style of prose, in effect devising a persona for himself as a Platonic philosopher. Plato's dialogues are populated with a wealth of literary characters with whom Plato interacts and against whom Plato refines his own philosophies. Reading through Ficino's translations, Robichaud finds that the Renaissance philosopher seeks an understanding of Plato's persona(e) among all the dialogues' interlocutors. In effect, Ficino assumed the role of Plato's Latin spokesperson in the Renaissance. Plato's Persona is grounded in an extensive study of scholarship in Renaissance humanism, classics, philosophy, and intellectual history, and contextualizes Ficino's intellectual achievements within the contemporary Christian orthodox view of Platonism. Ficino was an influential figure in the early Italian Renaissance: the key intermediary between Greek and Latin, and between manuscript and print, giving voice to Plato and access to the ancient frameworks needed to interpret his dialogues.
Author | : Michael J. B. Allen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789004118553 |
This volume consists of 21 essays on Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus-priest who was the architect of Renaissance Platonism. They cast fascinating new light on his theology, philosophy, and psychology as well as on his influence and sources.
Author | : Marsilio Ficino |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674017191 |
Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time, is a key to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.
Author | : Thomas O. Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9780773445499 |
These two volumes are the first extensive study of the influence of Marsilio Ficino on major English poets. Ficino lived in Florence, Italy from 1433 to 1499. He introduced Plato to the Renaissance by his translations of the philosopher's complete works with detailed commentary. He wrote important works on astrology, a multi-volume work on Platonic Theology, and hundreds of brilliant public letters on a variety of subjects.
Author | : Marsilio Ficino |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
To Ficino and prefaces added to his work published at this time." "The letters cover topics from friendship to healthy living and from the ancient philosophical tradition to biblical scholarship and medicine; there is discussion of the influence of the stars on human life, recommendations for reading books related to the Platonic tradition and reflections on the art of good writing and speaking." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Stephen Gersh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2019-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108415288 |
Using a series of case-studies from across European philosophical traditions, this book traces the influence of Neoplatonism over the centuries.
Author | : Sophia Howlett |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2016-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137539461 |
This book makes the case for Marsilio Ficino, a Renaissance philosopher and priest, as a canonical thinker, and provides an introduction for a broad audience. Sophia Howlett examines him as part of the milieu of Renaissance Florence, part of a history of Platonic philosophy, and as a key figure in the ongoing crisis between classical revivalism and Christian belief. The author discusses Ficino’s vision of a Platonic Christian universe with multiple worlds inhabited by angels, daemons and pagan gods, as well as our own distinctive role within that universe - climbing the heights to talk with angels yet constantly confused by the evidence of our own senses. Ficino as the “new Socrates” suggests to us that by changing ourselves, we can change our world.
Author | : James A. Coulter |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004044890 |
Author | : Angela Voss |
Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2006-12-19 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1556435606 |
Marsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. Though an ordained priest, he was also a practicing astrologer and magician whose daunting life’s work was to reconcile religious faith with philosophical reason — which included integrating pagan magical practice with Christianity. In a lengthy introduction, editor Angela Voss puts Ficino’s achievement in context as a complete re-visioning of traditional astrological practice and the beginning of a humanistic and psychological approach that prefigured contemporary holistic approaches to astrology as therapy.