Marsilio Ficino

Marsilio Ficino

Author: Michael J. B. Allen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 9789004118553

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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.


Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance

Iconology, Neoplatonism, and the Arts in the Renaissance

Author: Berthold Hub

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1000179117

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The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned Renaissance artists (such as Botticelli, Leonardo, or Michelangelo) created imaginative syntheses between their art and contemporary cosmology, philosophy, theology, and magic. The Neoplatonism in the books by Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola became widely acknowledged for its lasting influence on art. It thus became common knowledge that Renaissance artists were not exclusively concerned with problems intrinsic to their work but that their artifacts encompassed a much larger intellectual and cultural horizon. This volume brings together historians concerned with the history of their own discipline – and also those whose research is on the art and culture of the Italian Renaissance itself – with historians from a wide variety of specialist fields, in order to engage with the contested field of iconology. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, Renaissance history, Renaissance studies, historiography, philosophy, theology, gender studies, and literature.


Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance

Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance

Author: Nesca A. Robb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1000362884

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Originally published in 1935, the aim of this title is first to give a clear outline of Florentine Neoplatonism, and then to consider its influence on art and literature during a period that extends roughly from the age of Lorenzo de’ Medici to the middle of the sixteenth century and the beginnings of the Counter-Reformation. No rigid divisions of time have been fixed, but with few exceptions the works discussed may be placed between these bounds. Even within these limits it would require a work of greater dimensions that the present to exhaust so large a subject in all its bearings. The leaven of Neoplatonism had penetrated the thought of the age in many directions; this study is confined to such of its manifestations as were, in a somewhat narrow sense, artistic and literary and to the use and abuse of philosophical ideas for aesthetic purposes.


Three Books on Life

Three Books on Life

Author: Marsilio Ficino

Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13:

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Platonic Theology

Platonic Theology

Author: Marsilio Ficino

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780674017191

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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.


Plotinus' Legacy

Plotinus' Legacy

Author: Stephen Gersh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-25

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1108415288

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Using a series of case-studies from across European philosophical traditions, this book traces the influence of Neoplatonism over the centuries.


Neoplatonism and Christian Thought

Neoplatonism and Christian Thought

Author: Dominic J. O'Meara

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1981-06-30

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1438415117

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In this volume, the relationships between two of the most vital currents in Western thought are examined by a group of nineteen internationally known specialists in a variety of disciplines—classics, patristics, philosophy, theology, history of ideas, and literature. The contributing scholars discuss Neoplatonic theories about God, creation, man, and salvation, in relation to the ways in which they were adopted, adapted, or rejected by major Christian thinkers of five periods: Patristic, Later Greek and Byzantine, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern. Contributors include G.-H. Allard, A. Hilary Armstrong, Elizabeth Bieman, Linos Benakis, Henry Blumenthal, Mary T. Clark, Norris Clarke, John Dillon, Cornelio Fabro, John N. Findlay, Maurice de Gandillac, Edward P. Mahoney, Bernard McGinn, Dominic J. O'Meara, John J. O'Meara, Jean Pépin, Mary Carman Rose, Henri-Dominique Saffrey, Charles B. Schmitt, and Gérard Verbeke.


Marsilio Ficino and His World

Marsilio Ficino and His World

Author: Sophia Howlett

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-27

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1137539461

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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.