Platonic theology, volume 4 (Books XII-XIV) Latin text and english translation
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780674014824
- ISBN10 0674014820
- Type BOOK
- Pages 371
- Collection The I Tatti Renaissance Library
- Published 2004
- Bookbinding Cloth
Platonic theology, volume 4 (Books XII-XIV) Latin text and english translation
Editorial HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book details
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.