Viene analizzato il suo pensiero filosofico e gli assunti filosofici principali. Marsilio ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early italian renaissance. The natural magic of marsilio ficino historical dance. Though an ordained priest, he was also a practicing astrologer and magician whose daunting lifeas work was to reconcile religious faith with philosophical reason a which included integrating pagan magical practice with christianity. Marsilio ficino 14331499 who, under cosimos auspices, became the chief exponent of this revived platonism and the high priest of the hermetic secrets within a new platonic academy. Pdf the physics and metaphysics of talismans imagines. Marsilio ficino, fantasia, imaginacion, imagen, mens. Although ficino is commonly known as a translator and keen reader of the philosophical. Trattato sullamore di marsilio ficino ispirato al convivio simposio di platone. Schmitt, the times literary supplement happy is the man for whom all things end well. He was also an astrologer, a reviver of neoplatonism in touch with every major academic. Material gazes and flying images in marsilio ficino and. Marsilio ficino, plotino, san agustin, marsilio ficino. This volume consists of 21 essays on marsilio ficino 143399, the great florentine scholar, philosopher and priest who was the architect of renaissance platonism and whose longlasting influence on philosophy, love and music theory, medicine and magic extended across europe.
Marsilio ficino of florence 143399 is chiefly remembered for his role as the head of the platonic academy, a cultural centre where the foremost artists and humanists of the day gathered to promote a new renaissance attitude towards philosophy, religion and the arts. Manuscript florence, biblioteca medicea laurenziana, strozzi 97, fol. The author considers ficino as someone that pursues more giving food for. Marsilio ficino on reminiscentia and the transmigration of. Hermetic roots of marsilio ficinos anthropocentric thought. Intending to pursue the same career as his father, he studied medicine at the university of. The letters of marsilio ficino shepheardwalwyn publishers. The letters of marsilio ficino complete set shepheard. Ficino, marsilio appunto con riassunto sulla filosofia di masilio ficino. Grouped into three sections, they cover such topics as priesthood, the influence of hermetic monism, plotinus and. Marsilio ficino, one of the greatest figures of the italian renaissance, was born in florence, on october 19, 1433.
Ficino drew from the religious texts of the ancient pagans in order to give evidence for his assertion that the immortality of the soul is and always has been a doctrine that is fundamental to human society and that this doctrine, as it is found in prisca theologia, finds its culmination in christ, since he is the true and complete. Sopra lo amore ovvero convito di platone by marsilio ficino 14331499 publication date 19140101 usage public domain mark 1. Giovanni pico della mirandola, the italian humanist philosopher and scholar was another of his students. Marsilio ficino was at the very fountainhead of some of the most characteristic and influential aspects of the italian renaissance. Publication date 1493 publisher miscomini, antonio, fl. Marsilio ficino author of commentary on platos symposium. A case study in neoplatonism, aristotelianism and the esoteric tradition. Marsilio ficino metadata this file contains additional information such as exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. James hankins marsilio ficino on reminiscentia and the transmigration of souls in the middle of the eighteenth and last book of his platonic theology 1482, marsilio ficino makes a rather cryptic remark.