Studies in the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico
Studies in the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico

Author: Michael J.B. Allen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1351547577

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Fifteen of these essays by one of the leading authorities on Renaissance Platonism explore the complex philosophical, hermeneutical, and mythological issues addressed by the Florentine, Marsilio Ficino (1433-99). Ficino was the pre-eminent Platonist of his time and a distinguished philosopher, scholar and magus who had an enormous influence on the intellectual and cultural life of two and a half centuries, and who is one of the most important witnesses to the preoccupations of his age, above all to its fascination with ancient poetry and philosophy and their uneasy accommodation as an ancient "theology" with Christianity. Two further essays treat of cognate themes taken up by Ficino‘s younger friend and rival, the dazzling prince of Concordia, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-94), who was fascinated by Platonism in his youth but also by other philosophical legacies from the past, including Cabala and the Scholastic Aristotelianism of the Middle Ages. This volume‘s initial essay serves as an introduction to the comprehensive phenomenon of Renaissance Platonism.

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.

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.

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.

Ficino and Fantasy
Ficino and Fantasy

Author: Marieke J.E. van den Doel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-13

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9004459685

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Did the Florentine philosopher Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) influence the art of his time? This book starts with an exploration of Ficino’s views on the imagination and discusses whether, how and why these ideas may have been received in Italian Renaissance works of art.

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.

Oration on the Dignity of Man
Oration on the Dignity of Man

Author: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-03-27

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1596983019

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An ardent treatise for the Dignity of Man, which elevates Humanism to a truly Christian level. This translation of Pico della Mirandola's famed "Oration," hitherto hidden away in anthologies, was prepared especially for Gateway Editions, making it available for the first time in a stand-alone volume. The youngest son of the Prince of Mirandola, Pico lived during the Renaissance, an era of change and philosophical ferment. The tenacity with which he clung to fundamental Christian teachings while crying out against his brilliant though half-pagan contemporaries made him exceptional in a time of exceptional men. While Pico, as Russell Kirk observes in his introduction, was an ardent spokesman for the "dignity of man," his devout nature elevated humanism to a truly Christian level, which makes his writing as pertinent today as it was in the fifteenth century.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Author: Irene Caiazzo

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9004499466

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For the first time, the reader can have a synoptic view of the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, East and West, in a multicultural perspective. All the major themes of Pythagoreanism are addressed, from mathematics, number philosophy and metaphysics to ethics and religious thought.