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Title: Platonic Theology: Books I-IV by Marsilio Ficino, Michael J. B. Allen, John Warden, James Hankins, William R. Bowen ISBN: 0-674-00345-4 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful, profound, and life changing
Comment: Useful to the scholar. Thought provoking as intellectual work. Life changing in world view. There is an alternative to secularism or post-modernism.
Rating: 4
Summary: "Divine"
Comment: The Italian philosopher Marsilio Ficino, who was renowned for his Latin translations of all Plato's dialogues, set out to prove that the tenets of Platonism, instead of Aristotelianism, were fundamentally compatible with Christianity. He attempted this not only by acting as the primary mover of the Florentine academy, but also through his magnanimous patron Cosimo de' Medici who apportioned Ficino the leisure to commence his monumental work, "The Platonic Theology," which is offered here for the first time in a long-awaited English translation. Marsilio Ficino's work--from what may be seen from the first of five anticipated volumes--is an artful, straightforward representation of the divine philosophy of Plato, magnificently garbed under a brilliant and definitive medieval synthesis. Of the work itself Ficino says, "the Platonic mysteries are set forth as clearly as possible...so that...we may reveal the Platonic teaching, which is in complete accord with the divine law." Like all Christian-Platonists, Ficino used Augustine as a model for his orthodox amalgamation of the teachings of Plato and Christ, and believed so strongly in it that he said, "the Platonic teaching...is related to the divine law of both Moses and Christ as the moon is to the sun." With this in mind, it may be said that the vision of Marsilio Ficino, so clearly manifested in this work, will come as a relief to anyone ardently devoted to the school of Plato and the religion of Christ. The translated works of Ficino are certainly a great benefit to those confined to the English speaking world, and the other up-and-coming volumes in new I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard) are likely to produce the same effects. The value of these newly translated masterpieces of western culture cannot be described.
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Title: Platonic Theology: Books 5-8 by Marsilio Ficino, John Warden, James Hankins, William Bowen ISBN: 0674007646 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Platonic Theology: Books Ix-XI by Marsilio Ficino, Michael J. B. Allen, James Hankins ISBN: 0674010655 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Three Books on Life by Marsilio Ficino, Carol V. Kaske, John R. Clark ISBN: 0866980415 Publisher: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Meditations on the Soul: Selected Letters of Marsilio Ficino by Marsilio Ficino ISBN: 0892816589 Publisher: Inner Traditions International Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: On Discovery by Polydore Vergil, Brian P. Copenhaver, Vergil Polydore ISBN: 0674007891 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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