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Platonic Theology, Volume 4: Books XII-XIV (I Tatti Renaissance Library)

By Marsilio Ficino

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0674014820, 9780674014824
Open Library ID
OL21095515M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5253339 bytes)
Pages
380\380
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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 of the Renaissance. This is the fourth of a projected six volumes. (20061005)

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