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Platonic Theology, Volume 2: Books V-VIII (I Tatti Renaissance Library)

By Marsilio Ficino

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0674007646, 9780674007642
Open Library ID
OL21095515M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5535015 bytes)
Edition
Bilingual
Pages
406\406
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. (20061005)

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