Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his Influence

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Introduction......Page 14
Part I  The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino......Page 24
Ficino and the God of the Platonists......Page 26
Monstrous Melancholy: Ficino and the Physiological Causes
of Atheism......Page 38
Quo vertam oculos ut te laudem? Aspects of Praise in
Ficino’s Writing......Page 58
The First Pico–Ficino Controversy......Page 80
‘Et nuper Plethon’—Ficino’s Praise of Georgios Gemistos
Plethon and his Rational Religion......Page 102
Zoroaster and the Flying Egg: Psellos, Gerson and Ficino......Page 118
‘Jupiter tames Saturn’: Astrology in Ficino’s Epistolae......Page 130
Ficino’s Hymns and the Renaissance Platonic Academy......Page 146
Part II  The Influence of Marsilio Ficino......Page 162
Studied as an Oration: Readers of Pico’s letters, Ancient
and Modern......Page 164
Platonic Love on the Rocks: Castiglione Counter-Currents
in Renaissance Italy......Page 212
John Dee’s Annotations to Ficino’s Translation of Plato......Page 240
Marsilio Ficino and the Chemical Art......Page 262
Earth’s Soul and Spontaneous Generation: Fortunio Liceti’s
Criticism of Ficino’s Ideas on the Origin of Life......Page 286
Ficinian Influence on Henry More’s Arguments for the Soul’s
Immortality......Page 314
Neo-Platonic modes of concordism versus definitions of
difference: Simplicius, Augustinus Steuco and Ralph
Cudworth versus Marco Antonio Zimara and
Benedictus Pererius......Page 330
Bibliography......Page 356
Index......Page 382