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Platonic Theology, Volume 3: Books IX-XI (I Tatti Renaissance Library)

By Marsilio Ficino

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0674010655, 9780674010659
Open Library ID
OL21095515M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5200848 bytes)
Edition
1ST
Pages
368\368
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" is one of the keys of understanding the art, thought, culture and spirituality of the Renaissance.

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