A reception history -- The memory of Ficino north of the Alps -- The diffusion of Ficino's work in manuscript and print -- The ancient theology in sixteenth-century Germany : six case studies -- A manual for the scholarly life : De vita -- As above, so below : astrology, seminal ideas and the metaphysics of light -- Ficino and alchemy -- Tübingen and Stuttgart -- Nuremberg -- Leipzig -- Strasbourg and Sélestat -- Erfurt and Gotha -- Cologne -- Wittenberg -- Switzerland -- Ficino's ghost -- The changing fortunes of Ficino's theory of magic and dietetics from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century -- Ficino and the encyclopaedists -- Opposition to Ficino's work.
Summary:
"The philosopher and humanist Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) has attracted scholarly attention as translator of Plato, the Corpus Hermeticum, Plotinus and other Neoplatonists, and for his complex synthesis of Platonism and Christianity. While most previous studies of Ficino's reception have focussed on Italy, France, England and Spain, this book presents a comprehensive study of his reception in Germany and neighbouring areas, examining how Northern writers between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries remembered and reinvented Ficino's person and work. Focused chapters examine the ways German authors adapted his theories of the Ancient Theology, melancholia, celestial influence and poetic inspiration, and used his writings in related fields such as alchemy and witchcraft. It also studies those who rejected Ficino's work, providing context for those who embraced his ideas. The most comprehensive bibliography of printed editions of Ficino's work since Kristeller forms the basis for a bibliometric analysis."-- Back cover.
Series:
Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 0082-6081 ; no DCXXXIII
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