Platonic Theology: Volume 2 - Books V–VIII

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.

About the author

Michael J. B. Allen is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.James Hankins is Professor of History at Harvard University and founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. He is the author of Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy, winner of the Marraro Prize and a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year; Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena; and Plato in the Italian Renaissance; and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on Renaissance philosophy and political thought, he is a Corresponding Member of the British Academy.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Marsilio Ficino
• Assisted by: William Bowen (Editor), James Hankins (Editor), Hankins James (Editor), Michael J. B. Allen (Translation), Michael J.B. (Professor of English Allen (Translation), Allen Michael J. B. (Translation), John Warden (Translation)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2002
• EAN: 9780674007642
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00764-2
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library; The I Tatti Renaissance Library; Tatti Renaissance Library (HUP) CONTINS PASS TO - [e-mail]
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy