Marsilio Ficino

2ª ed. De amore marcó el comienzo del género de tratados sobre el amor y la belleza, que se desarrollará ampliamente durante el "Cinquecento". En su transcurso, la poética originalidad de Ficino va iluminando la base iconográfica para las obras de artistas renacentistas como Botticelli, Miguel Ángel, Rafael o Tiziano, ya estudiadas por los miembros del Instituto Warburg. La traducción e introducción han sido realizadas por Rocío de la Villa Ardura, profesora de Estética de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Durante el curso 1984-1985 ha investigado, bajo la dirección del Istituto di Studi sul Rinascimiento de Florencia, la relación de lo buno y lo bello de Marsilio Ficino.

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.

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 is the fifth of a projected six volumes.

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. 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.

Traducido de la edición inglesa al español por miembros de la Escuela de Filosofía Política de Madrid. La correspondencia de Marsilio Ficino, figura clave del Renacimiento, muestra el esfuerzo de un selecto grupo de personalidades de la Florencia humanista, por recorrer un camino lleno de estusiasmo y confianza en el poder de la razon en el ser humano, por intentar comprender la vida a traves de la profunda reflexion filosofica como via de iluminacion.

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.

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.

Los textos "Sobre el Sol"y "Sobre el Lumen" se sitúan como una invitación del filósofo italiano a que observamos detenidamente y con una mirada nueva algo tan cotidiano como la imagen del Sol y la naturaleza de la luz, para que, de esta manera, nos asombraremos de lo que pueden decirnos acerca del universo, de su procedencia divina y de nuestra propia vida en el universo. En efecto, el texto intenta ejercitarnos en la suspension momentanea de esa mirada cotidiana que juzga y encuentra el mundo siempre igual y que, por ello mismo, no encuentra nada nuevo en un horizonte perdido en la monotonia de un universo predecible y ordinario, para que, a traves del juego de analogias, alegorias y metaforas, descubramos lo que la imagen del Sol y el fenomeno de la luz encierran en si para aquellos que deseen renovar su vision de las mismas. En la precedente edicion hemos invertido el orden de los tratados para ayudar a la comprension de los mismos. Ambos opusculos tienen como mision una elevacion de la mirada interior hacia realidades superiores que se hallan ocultas o simbolizadas en las imagenes sensibles del Sol y de la luz y que una vision interpretativa mas profunda puede revelarlas y esclarecerlas.

Marsilio Ficino (Figline Valdarno 1443- Florencia, 1499) fue el principal ideólogo de la Florencia de Lorenzo el Magnífico. Médico, filósofo, astrólogo, sacerdote y músico, creó un nuevo pensamiento: el neoplatonismo florentino, transformando la historia