Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Ficino the Priest......Page 24
The Camaldolese Academy: Ambrogio Traversari, Marsilio Ficino and the Christian Platonic Tradition......Page 38
Marsilio Ficino as a Christian Thinker: Theological Aspects of his Platonism......Page 68
Late Antiquity and Florentine Platonism: The \'Post-Plotinian\' Ficino......Page 94
Ficino, Augustine and the Pagans......Page 122
Echoes of Egypt in Hermes and Ficino......Page 138
Prisca Theologia in Marsilio Ficino and in Some Jewish Treatments......Page 160
Life as a Dead Platonist......Page 182
Marsilio Ficino and the Plato-Aristotle Controversy......Page 202
Intellect and Will in Marsilio Ficino: Two Correlatives of a Renaissance Concept of the Mind......Page 226
Orpheus redivivus: The Musical Magic of Marsilio Ficino......Page 250
Ficino, Theriaca and the Stars......Page 266
Concepts of Seeds and Nature in the Work of Marsilio Ficino......Page 280
Narcissus, Divine Gazes and Bloody Mirrors: the Concept of Matter in Ficino......Page 308
Ficino, Archimedes and the Celestial Arts......Page 330
Neoplatonism and the Visual Arts at the Time of Marsilio Ficino......Page 350
Ficino\'s Advice to Princes......Page 362
The Platonic Academy of Florence......Page 382
Ficino in the Firing Line: A Renaissance Neoplatonist and His Critics......Page 400
Ficino and Copernicus......Page 422
\'To rauish and refine an earthly soule\': Ficino and the Poetry of George Chapman......Page 442
Illustrations......Page 466
Bibliography......Page 478
List of Contributors......Page 502
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M......Page 517
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Z......Page 528