Platonic theology / Marsilio Ficino ; English translation by Michael J.B. Allen with John Warden ; Latin text edited by James Hankins with William Bowen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.

Contributor:

Hankins, James.

Bowen, William R.

Allen, Michael J. B.

Warden, John, 1936-

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 2, 7.

The I Tatti Renaissance library ; 2, 7

Standardized Title:

Theologia Platonica. English & Latin

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Soul.

Immortality.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001-

Summary:

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.

This sixth and final volume of the I Tatti Renaissance Library edition includes comprehensive indexes to the whole work.

Contents:

v. 1. Books I-IV

v. 2. Books V-VIII

v. 3. Books IX-XI

v.4. Books XII-XIV.

v.5. Books XV-XVI

v.6. Books XVII-XVIII

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0674003454

0674007646

0674010655

OCLC:

45362539