Marsilio Ficino

The Book of Life (Dunquin Series)

To Ficino and prefaces added to his work published at this time." "The letters cover topics from friendship to healthy living and from the ancient philosophical tradition to biblical scholarship and medicine; there is discussion of the influence of the stars on human life, recommendations for reading books related to the Platonic tradition and reflections on the art of good writing and speaking." --Book Jacket.

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino

James Hankins

William R. Bowen

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.

Platonic Theology: Books I-IV

Opera omnia

Marsilio Ficino's Platonic evangelising was eminently successful and widely influential. His 'Platonic Theology' is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

Platonic theology

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.

Platonic Theology

This is the first translation into English of Marsilio Ficino’s De Christiana religione, a text first written in Latin in 1474, the year after its author’s ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. On the Christian Religion is this Florentine humanist’s attempt to lay out the history of the religion of Christ, the Logos ("Word" or "Reason"), in accordance with the doctrines of ancient philosophy. The work –focuses on how Christ in his pre-incarnate form was revealed as much to certain ancient pagan sages and prophets as to those of the Old Testament, and how both groups played an equal role in foreshadowing the ultimate fulfilment of all the world’s religions in Christianity. The first part elucidates the history of the prisca theologia – the ancient theology – a single natural religion shared by the likes of Zoroaster, Hermes Trismegistus, Orpheus, Aglaophemus, Pythagoras, and Plato, and how it was fulfilled by Christ’s Incarnation and the spread of his Church through his apostles. The second part of the work, however, constitutes a series of attacks against the ways in which the books of the Old Testament were variously interpreted by Islamic and, more importantly, Jewish sages who threatened Ficino’s own Christological interpretations of Scripture. This new English translation includes an introduction that situates the text within the broader scope of Ficino’s intellectual activity and historical context. The book allows us to encounter a more nuanced image of Ficino, that of him as a theologian, historian, and anti-Jewish, anti-Islamic, anti-pagan polemicist.

On the Christian Religion

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Liber I

Arthur Farndell

Under the patronage of the Medici family, Marsilio Ficino translated into Latin and commentated on the meaning and implications of key works by Plato--including 25 of Plato's dialogues and 12 letters ascribed to the philosopher. The 40 concise articles in this collection comprise the first English translation of Ficino's works and provide an insightful glimpse into the philosophy that contributed to the Renaissance.

Ficino on Plato

Gardens of Philosophy

Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. His commentaries remained the standard guide to the philosopher’s works for centuries. Vanhaelen’s new translation of Parmenides makes this monument of metaphysics accessible to the modern student.

Parmenides, Part II

Commentaries on Plato, Volume 2

Il consiglio di M. M. F. ... côtro la pestilẽtia: cõ altre cose aggiũte appropriate alla medesima malattia. Con il Consiglio di ... T. del Garbo: pur cõtra la decta pestilentia. Few MS. notes

Marsilio Ficino, a leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance who translated all the works of Plato into Latin, examines Plato’s Timaeus, the most widely influential and hotly debated of the Platonic writings. Offering a probable account of the creation and nature of the cosmos, the discussion incorporates such questions as What is the function of arithmetic and geometry in the design of creation? What is the nature of mind, soul, matter, and time? and What is our place in the universe? To his main commentary Ficino adds an appendix, which amplifies and elucidates Plato’s meanings and reveals fascinating details about Ficino himself.

Ficino on Plato's Timaeus

All Things Natural

Leon Battista Alberti

Momus

William Roy Bowen

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.

Platonic Theology: Books V-VIII

Als Sohn des Leibarztes von Cosimo de' Medici erhielt Marsilio Ficino schon in jungen Jahren den Auftrag, Griechisch zu lernen und die Schriften Platons zu übersetzen. Auf Anregung seines Freundes Pico della Mirandola fertigte er im Anschluss daran auch eine lateinische Version vom Werk des Neuplatonikers Plotin an. Er ordnete die plotinischen Traktate in sechs Neunergruppen (Enneaden) und schrieb zu jedem der 54 'Bücher' eine kommentierende Einleitung. Mit einer Widmung an Lorenzo de' Medici wurde Ficinos Plotinausgabe am 7. Mai 1492 in Florenz gedruckt. Seit diesem Erstdruck hat es einige weitere Editionen gegeben, zuletzt 1835 durch Friedrich Creuzer. In der nunmehr auf drei Bände verteilten modernen Ausgabe der von Ficino selbst als Kommentar bezeichneten Einleitungen ist erstmals eine textkritische Edition mit einer deutschen Übersetzung versehen.****************The son of Cosimo de' Medici's personal physician, Marsilio Ficino was commissioned at a young age to learn Greek and to translate Plato's writings. At the suggestion of his friend Pico della Mirandola, he subsequently produced a Latin version of the work of the neo-Platonist Plotinus. He arranged Plotinus' treatises into six nine-groups (Enneaden) and wrote a commenting introduction to each of those 54 'books'. With a dedication to Lorenzo de' Medici, Ficino's Plotinus edition was printed in Florence on 7 May 1492. Since this first edition there have been published several others, most recently in 1835 by Friedrich Creuzer. In this modern edition of the introductions, which Ficino himself described as a commentary, distributed over three volumes, a text-critical edition with a German translation is provided for the first time.

Herausgegeben, eingeleitet und übersetzt von Peter Riemer und Clemens Zintzen

In Plotinum - Plotinkommentar

Consiglio contro la pestilenza

K.P. Hasse

?ber die liebe, oder, Platons Gastmahl

'De amore sive in convivium Platonis', dessen Wirkungsgeschichte bis weit ins 17. Jahrhundert reicht, ist Nachdichtung und Platon-Kommentar in einem und eines der bedeutendsten philosophischen Werke der Renaissance. - Bei einem Bankett vorgeblich anlässlich von Platons Geburtstag stellen neun Gäste, allesamt bekannte Florentiner Gelehrte, ihre Auffassungen über die Liebe in wechselnden Reden vor, indem sie Platons 'Symposion' in zeitgenössischer Neuakzentuierung paraphrasieren. Dabei wird die Lehre von amor?/?caritas zum spekulativen Ansatzpunkt für Erkenntnislehre, Theologie, Kosmologie, Ethik und Naturphilosophie. In das Grundkonzept des 'Symposion' trägt Ficino als neues Element die Konvergenz des Platonismus mit dem Christentum ein, wobei er den ›Eros‹ einerseits neuplatonisch in sinnliche und himmlische Liebe differenziert, andererseits den Liebesbegriff christlich dynamisiert und erweitert. Nicht nur, wie bei Platon, bewirkt der ›Eros‹ das Streben des Sinnlichen zum Höheren, auch umgekehrt richtet sich das erotische Bestreben des Göttlichen auf das Materielle. Und schließlich ist die Liebe das Moment, das alle Dualismen, Form und Materie, Gott und Universum, zusammenhält: Der Eros wird zur Chiffre des Hervorgangs und der Rückwendung alles Seienden in Relation zu Gott - eine Relation, deren irdisches Abbild die irdische Liebe ist. Ficinos Metaphysik, die für die Philosophie der Renaissance von fundamentaler Bedeutung ist, enthält gleichzeitig auch eine für die Geschichte der Ästhetik bedeutsame Theorie des Schönen: Liebe wird als Sehnsucht nach dem Schönen verstanden, der Mensch gelangt über die Schau der körperlichen Schönheit zur geistigen Schönheit und letztlich zur Erkenntnis der Ordnung der Ideen und des Universums. Ficinos neuplatonische 'Ästhetik' ist weit entfernt von subjektivistischer Kunsttheorie, enthält aber bereits Ansätze zu einer Theorie des menschlichen Liebens und Wahrnehmens.

Über die Liebe oder Platons Gastmahl

Three Books on Life

Annotation. 'Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, - no, nor the human race, as I believe, - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day' - Republic, Book V With these words Plato expressed his ideal form of government. Often dismissed as unrealizable, they have appealed down the ages to men of goodwill. Having translated all of the Dialogues from Greek into Latin, at the request of his Medici patrons, Ficino was asked to prepare summaries by Lorenzo de' Medici, the de facto ruler of the republic of Florence, who aspired to be the kind of enlightened ruler Plato described. Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Renaissance. He put before society a new ideal of human nature, emphasising its divine potential. As head of the Platonic Academy in Florence, and as teacher and guide to a remarkable circle of men, he made a vital contribution to the changes that were taking place in European thought. With the collapse of the global economy calling the wisdom of our political leaders into question, this publication is a timely reminder of those principles which have formed the basis of good government and inspired statesmen down the ages. This four-volume series consists of Gardens of Philosophy, 2006, Evermore Shall Be So, 2007 and All Things Natural, 2010, and contains all Ficino's commentaries not previously translated into English. As Carol Kaske of Cornell University wrote when reviewing Gardens of Philosophy in Renaissance Quarterly, these translations fill 'A need. Even those Anglophone scholars who know Latin still need a translation in order to read quickly through a large body of material'.

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