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Platonic Theology, Volume 6: Books XVII-XVIII (I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0674019865, 9780674019867
Open Library ID
OL21095515M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5468001 bytes)
Pages
424\424
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
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 sixth and final volume of the I Tatti Renaissance Library edition includes comprehensive indexes to the whole work. (20061005)

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