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Platonic Theology
Marsilio Ficino
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Description for Platonic Theology
hardcover. Marsilion Ficino's Platonic evangelising was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology, translated into English in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance. Editor(s): Hankins, James; Bowen, William. Translator(s): Allen, Michael J.B. (Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, USA); Warden, John. Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library. Num Pages: 384 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 524.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Series
The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Condition
New
Weight
525g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674007642
SKU
V9780674007642
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About Marsilio Ficino
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.
Reviews for Platonic Theology
The Loeb Classical Library...has been of incalculable benefit to generations of scholars...It seems certain that the I Tatti Renaissance Library will serve a similar purpose for Renaissance Latin texts, and that, in addition to its obvious academic value, it will facilitate a broadening base of participation in Renaissance Studies...These books are to be lauded not only for their principles of inclusivity and accessibility, and for their rigorous scholarship, but also for their look and feel. Everything about them is attractive: the blue of their dust jackets and cloth covers, the restrained and elegant design, the clarity of the typesetting, the quality of the paper, and not least the sensible price. This is a new set of texts well worth collecting.
Kate Lowe
Times Literary Supplement
An aristocratic devotion to our culture continues to manifest itself even today in the most prestigious centers of study and thought. One has merely to look at the very recent (begun in 2001), rigorous and elegant humanistic series of Harvard University, with the original Latin text, English translation, introduction and notes.
Vittore Branca
Il Sole 24 Ore
The main work, the editing and translation of Ficino's text, has been done superbly well. Allen and Hakins have begun a work of scholarship of the highest caliber, whose continuation is eagerly awaited. And since it is such a rare thing, let me add that the book is set in a very beautiful font, which also makes it an aesthetic pleasure to read.
Luc Deitz
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
The second volume of Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Theology has now been added to the prestigious [I Tatti] collection...The text produced in this new edition reflects with greater faithfulness and completeness, compared to previous attempts, Ficino's spirit and style...For these reasons the edition of the Platonic Theology published by Harvard University Press promises to give us an excellent contribution to the progress of Ficino studies and studies on Renaissance and modern Neoplatonism.
Lettere Italiane
Ficino set out to show that the ancient Neoplatonic philosophy embodied a "gentile theological tradition," one that complemented the Mosaic revelation to the Jews and prepared its devotees for the final truths of Christianity. Ficino worked in full knowledge of the internal complications of Neoplatonism. He wrote and argued in styles that ranged from the logical and synthetic to the poetic and evocative, as he struggled to find ways to prove that the universe was orderly and governed by a Creator and to lay out the place within it of the immortal human soul.
Anthony T. Grafton
New York Review of Books
Kate Lowe
Times Literary Supplement
An aristocratic devotion to our culture continues to manifest itself even today in the most prestigious centers of study and thought. One has merely to look at the very recent (begun in 2001), rigorous and elegant humanistic series of Harvard University, with the original Latin text, English translation, introduction and notes.
Vittore Branca
Il Sole 24 Ore
The main work, the editing and translation of Ficino's text, has been done superbly well. Allen and Hakins have begun a work of scholarship of the highest caliber, whose continuation is eagerly awaited. And since it is such a rare thing, let me add that the book is set in a very beautiful font, which also makes it an aesthetic pleasure to read.
Luc Deitz
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
The second volume of Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Theology has now been added to the prestigious [I Tatti] collection...The text produced in this new edition reflects with greater faithfulness and completeness, compared to previous attempts, Ficino's spirit and style...For these reasons the edition of the Platonic Theology published by Harvard University Press promises to give us an excellent contribution to the progress of Ficino studies and studies on Renaissance and modern Neoplatonism.
Lettere Italiane
Ficino set out to show that the ancient Neoplatonic philosophy embodied a "gentile theological tradition," one that complemented the Mosaic revelation to the Jews and prepared its devotees for the final truths of Christianity. Ficino worked in full knowledge of the internal complications of Neoplatonism. He wrote and argued in styles that ranged from the logical and synthetic to the poetic and evocative, as he struggled to find ways to prove that the universe was orderly and governed by a Creator and to lay out the place within it of the immortal human soul.
Anthony T. Grafton
New York Review of Books