Marsilio Ficino
Title | Marsilio Ficino PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Voss |
Publisher | North Atlantic Books |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2006-12-19 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1556435606 |
Marsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. Though an ordained priest, he was also a practicing astrologer and magician whose daunting life’s work was to reconcile religious faith with philosophical reason — which included integrating pagan magical practice with Christianity. In a lengthy introduction, editor Angela Voss puts Ficino’s achievement in context as a complete re-visioning of traditional astrological practice and the beginning of a humanistic and psychological approach that prefigured contemporary holistic approaches to astrology as therapy.
Marsilio Ficino and His World
Title | Marsilio Ficino and His World PDF eBook |
Author | Sophia Howlett |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2016-08-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1137539461 |
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.
Marsilio Ficino
Title | Marsilio Ficino PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. B. Allen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9789004118553 |
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.
Three Books on Life
Title | Three Books on Life PDF eBook |
Author | Marsilio Ficino |
Publisher | Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino
Title | The Letters of Marsilio Ficino PDF eBook |
Author | Marsilio Ficino |
Publisher | Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
To Ficino and prefaces added to his work published at this time." "The letters cover topics from friendship to healthy living and from the ancient philosophical tradition to biblical scholarship and medicine; there is discussion of the influence of the stars on human life, recommendations for reading books related to the Platonic tradition and reflections on the art of good writing and speaking." --Book Jacket.
Platonic Theology: Books I-IV
Title | Platonic Theology: Books I-IV PDF eBook |
Author | Marsilio Ficino |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Immortality |
ISBN |
Echoes of an Invisible World
Title | Echoes of an Invisible World PDF eBook |
Author | Jacomien Prins |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 473 |
Release | 2014-11-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004281762 |
In Echoes of an Invisible World Jacomien Prins offers an account of the transformation of the notion of Pythagorean world harmony during the Renaissance and the role of the Italian philosophers Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) and Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) in redefining the relationship between cosmic order and music theory. By concentrating on Ficino’s and Patrizi’s work, the book chronicles the emergence of a new musical reality between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a reality in which beauty and the complementary idea of celestial harmony were gradually replaced by concepts of expressivity and emotion, that is to say, by a form of idealism that was ontologically more subjective than the original Pythagorean and Platonic metaphysics.