Marsilio Ficino
His Theology, his Philosophy, his Legacy
Edited by Michael J. B. Allen and Valery Rees, with Martin Davies
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Biographical note
Michael J.B. Allen, DLitt (Oxon), Ph.D. (Michigan) is Professor of English at UCLA, and an Editor of Renaissance Quarterly. His books include The Platonism of Marsilio Ficino (1984), Icastes (1989), Nuptial Arithmetic (1994), Plato’s Third Eye (1995) and Synoptic Art (1998).
Valery Rees, MA (Cantab) has been a member of the translation team working on Ficino’s Letters at the School of Economic Science, London since 1975 and is currently researching Ficino’s relationship with the court of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary.
Valery Rees, MA (Cantab) has been a member of the translation team working on Ficino’s Letters at the School of Economic Science, London since 1975 and is currently researching Ficino’s relationship with the court of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, the Renaissance, Platonism; history and philosophy of religion (Christian and Jewish), history of art, political theory, literature, early science, medicine and music.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction, Michael J. B. Allen
PART I
1. Ficino the Priest, Peter Serracino-Inglott
2. The Camaldolese Academy: Ambrogio Traversari, Marsilio Ficino and the Christian Platonic Tradition, Dennis F. Lackner
3. Marsilio Ficino as a Christian Thinker: Theological Aspects of his Platonism, Jörg Lauster
4. Late Antiquity and Florentine Platonism: The ‘Post-Plotinian’ Ficino, Christopher S. Celenza
5. Ficino, Augustine and the Pagans, Anthony Levi
6. Echoes of Egypt in Hermes and Ficino, Clement Salaman
7. Prisca Theologia in Marsilio Ficino and in Some Jewish Treatments, Moshe Idel
8. Life as a Dead Platonist, Michael J. B. Allen
PART II
9. Marsilio Ficino and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy, John Monfasani
10. Intellect and Will in Marsilio Ficino: Two Correlatives of a Renaissance Concept of the Mind, Tamara Albertini
11. Orpheus redivivus: The Musical Magic of Marsilio Ficino, Angela Voss
12. Ficino, Theriaca and the Stars, Donald Beecher
13. Concepts of Seeds and Nature in the Work of Marsilio Ficino, Hiroshi Hirai
14. Narcissus, Divine Gazes and Bloody Mirrors: the Concept of Matter in Ficino, Sergius Kodera
15. Ficino, Archimedes and the Celestial Arts, Stéphane Toussaint
PART III
16. Neoplatonism and the Visual Arts at the Time of Marsilio Ficino, Francis Ames-Lewis
17. Ficino’s Advice to Princes, Valery Rees
18. The Platonic Academy of Florence, Arthur Field
19. Ficino in the Firing Line: A Renaissance Neoplatonist and His Critics, Jill Kraye
20. Ficino and Copernicus, Dilwyn Knox
21. ‘To rauish and refine an earthly soule’: Ficino and the Poetry of George Chapman, Stephen Clucas
Illustrations
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction, Michael J. B. Allen
PART I
1. Ficino the Priest, Peter Serracino-Inglott
2. The Camaldolese Academy: Ambrogio Traversari, Marsilio Ficino and the Christian Platonic Tradition, Dennis F. Lackner
3. Marsilio Ficino as a Christian Thinker: Theological Aspects of his Platonism, Jörg Lauster
4. Late Antiquity and Florentine Platonism: The ‘Post-Plotinian’ Ficino, Christopher S. Celenza
5. Ficino, Augustine and the Pagans, Anthony Levi
6. Echoes of Egypt in Hermes and Ficino, Clement Salaman
7. Prisca Theologia in Marsilio Ficino and in Some Jewish Treatments, Moshe Idel
8. Life as a Dead Platonist, Michael J. B. Allen
PART II
9. Marsilio Ficino and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy, John Monfasani
10. Intellect and Will in Marsilio Ficino: Two Correlatives of a Renaissance Concept of the Mind, Tamara Albertini
11. Orpheus redivivus: The Musical Magic of Marsilio Ficino, Angela Voss
12. Ficino, Theriaca and the Stars, Donald Beecher
13. Concepts of Seeds and Nature in the Work of Marsilio Ficino, Hiroshi Hirai
14. Narcissus, Divine Gazes and Bloody Mirrors: the Concept of Matter in Ficino, Sergius Kodera
15. Ficino, Archimedes and the Celestial Arts, Stéphane Toussaint
PART III
16. Neoplatonism and the Visual Arts at the Time of Marsilio Ficino, Francis Ames-Lewis
17. Ficino’s Advice to Princes, Valery Rees
18. The Platonic Academy of Florence, Arthur Field
19. Ficino in the Firing Line: A Renaissance Neoplatonist and His Critics, Jill Kraye
20. Ficino and Copernicus, Dilwyn Knox
21. ‘To rauish and refine an earthly soule’: Ficino and the Poetry of George Chapman, Stephen Clucas
Illustrations
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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