The Letters of Marsilio Ficino

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
Total 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.

Marsilio Ficino

Marsilio Ficino
Author: Angela Voss
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total 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.

Three Books on Life

Three Books on Life
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

Marsilio Ficino

Marsilio Ficino
Author: Michael J. B. Allen
Publisher: BRILL
Total 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.

Platonic Theology

Platonic Theology
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674017191

Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time, is a key to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Meditations on the Soul

Meditations on the Soul
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher:
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2002-07
Genre: Philosophers
ISBN: 9780856831973

The problems that taxed the minds of people during the Renaissance were much the same as those confronting us today. In their perplexity, many deep-thinking people sought the advice of Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the leader of the Platonic Academy in Florence, a magnet for the most brilliant scholars of 15th-century Europe. In devoting his life to the study and translation of the great dialogues of Plato and the Neoplatonists, Ficino and his colleagues were midwives to the birth of the modern world. Ficino was fearless in expressing what he knew to be true. Covering the widest range of topics, his letters offer a profound glimpse into the soul of the Renaissance.

Icastes

Icastes
Author: Michael J. B. Allen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

"All of Allen's publications on Ficino have been important. This one stands out for the important problem areas in Ficino's thought and intellectual career that it defines and clarifies."--Charles Trinkaus, University of Michigan

Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion

Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion
Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674031197

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This volume contains Ficino's extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus.

The Planets Within

The Planets Within
Author: Thomas Moore
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1990
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780940262287

The Planets Within asks us to return to antiquity with new eyes. It centers on one of the most psychological movements of the prescientific age -- Renaissance Italy, where a group of 'inner Columbuses' charted territories that still give us today a much- needed sense of who we are and where we have come from, and the right routes to take toward fertile and unexplored places.Chief among these masters of the interior life was Marsilio Ficino, presiding genius of the Florentine Academy, who taught that all things exist in soul and must be lived in its light. This study of Ficino broadens and deepens our understanding of psyche, for Ficino was a doctor of soul, and his insights teach us the care and nurture of soul.Moore takes as his guide Ficino's own fundamental tool -- imagination. Respecting the integrity and autonomy of images, The Planets Within unfolds a poetics of soul in a kind of dialogue between the laconic remarks of Ficino and the need to give these remarks a life and context for our day.