Laus Platonici philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his influence
Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino; Ficino and the God of the Platonists; Monstrous Melancholy: Ficino and the Physiological Causes of Atheism; Quo vertam oculos ut te laudem? Aspects of Praise in Ficino's Writing; The First Pico-Fici...
| Résumé: | Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino; Ficino and the God of the Platonists; Monstrous Melancholy: Ficino and the Physiological Causes of Atheism; Quo vertam oculos ut te laudem? Aspects of Praise in Ficino's Writing; The First Pico-Ficino Controversy; 'Et nuper Plethon'--Ficino's Praise of Georgios Gemistos Plethon and his Rational Religion; Zoroaster and the Flying Egg: Psellos, Gerson and Ficino; 'Jupiter tames Saturn': Astrology in Ficino's Epistolae; Ficino's Hymns and the Renaissance Platonic Academy. Neo-Platonic modes of concordism versus definitions of difference: Simplicius, Augustinus Steuco and Ralph Cudworth versus Marco Antonio Zimara and Benedictus PereriusBibliography; Index. Part II The Influence of Marsilio FicinoStudied as an Oration: Readers of Pico's letters, Ancient and Modern; Platonic Love on the Rocks: Castiglione Counter-Currents in Renaissance Italy; John Dee's Annotations to Ficino's Translation of Plato; Marsilio Ficino and the Chemical Art; Earth's Soul and Spontaneous Generation: Fortunio Liceti's Criticism of Ficino's Ideas on the Origin of Life; Ficinian Influence on Henry More's Arguments for the Soul's Immortality. This collection of essays honours Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) as a Platonic philosopher. Ficino was not the first translator of Plato in the Renaissance, but he was the first to translate the entire corpus of Platonic works, and to emphasise their relevance for contemporary readers. The present work is divided into two sections: the first explores aspects of Ficino's own thought and the sources which he used. The second section follows aspects of his influence in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The papers presented here deepen and enrich our understanding of Ficino, and of the philoso |
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| Description: | Proceedings of a conference held in Sept. 2004 at Birkbeck College. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-367) and index. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 9004188975 |