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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, v. 7 (Book VIII) (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, v. 7 (Book VIII) (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: The Letters of Marsilio Ficino
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As leader of the Platonic Academy in Florence, Marsilio Ficino was
teacher and guide to a remarkable circle of men. He inspired
leading statesmen, scholars and churchmen throughout Europe, who
travelled to meet him or conducted an extensive correspondence with
him. The ideas they discussed appeared again and again and in the
works of literature and art that followed: in Spenser, Shakespeare
and Donne, in Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Durer and many
more. Volume 7 (Book VIII of the Latin edition) is dedicated to one
of Ficino's correspondents, King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. Most
of the dated letters are from June 1487 to October 1488, part of
Florence's "golden decade", when Lorenzo de' Medici's astute
politicking made him not only the peacemaker of the warring states
of Italy, but also virtually controller of papal foreign policy.
Ficino made good use of his time. Between 1482 and 1484 his major
works were published: the "Platonic Theology", the "Christian
Religion" and his translation from Greek into Latin of Plato's
"Dialogues". He then turned to the translation of Plotinus.
Important letters in this volume include his oration "God is Love",
delivered to the clergy and people of Florence on the occasion of
his installation as a canon of the cathedral in 1487. There are
also letters comparing Moses with Plato and Socrates with Christ.
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