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Studies in the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico (Paperback)
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Studies in the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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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.
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