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Platonic Theology, Volume 1: Books I–IV (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) by Marsilio Ficino; English translation by Michael J.B. Allen with John Warden; Latin text edited by James Hankins with William Bowen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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. Review 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 editing and translation of Ficino's text has been done superbly well. Allen and Hankins have begun a work of scho
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- Author
- Marsilio Ficino; English translation by Michael J.B. Allen with John Warden; Latin text edited by James Hankins with William Bowen
- Publisher
- The I Tatti Renaissance Library : Harvard University Press
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674014824
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Western, Philosophy
- Rating
- 4.05 / 5 (20 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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