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Platonic Theology
Marsilio Ficino
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Description for Platonic Theology
Hardcover. Editor(s): Hankins, James. Translator(s): Allen, Michael J.B. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 476.
The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity, in the hope that such a reconciliation would initiate a spiritual revival and return of the golden age. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Language
Latin
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674017191
SKU
V9780674017191
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About Marsilio Ficino
Michael J. B. Allen is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. He is the author of Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy, winner of the Marraro Prize and a Times Literary Supplement Book ... Read more
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Ficino set out to show that the ancient Neoplatonic philosophy embodied a "gentile theological tradition," one that complemented the Mosaic revelation to the Jews and prepared its devotees for the final truths of Christianity. Ficino worked in full knowledge of the internal complications of Neoplatonism. He wrote and argued in styles that ranged from the logical and synthetic to the ... Read more