The Letters of Marsilio Ficino: Volume 3 - Hardcover

Ficino, Marsilio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0856830453 ISBN 13: 9780856830457

Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1994

Synopsis

The problems which troubled people's minds during the Italian Renaissance were much the same as today. In trying to cope with them, many deep thinking people turned to Marsilio Ficino for help. Through his letters he advised, encouraged, and occasionally reproved them. Fearlessly he expressed the truth and his wisdom influenced many of the finest Western minds. He numbered statesmen, popes, artists, scientists, and philosophers amongst his circle.

About this title

About the Author:

Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) was a leading thinker in Florence, a magnet for the most brilliant scholars of fifteenth-century Europe, where the Italian Renaissance derived its impulse and direction, and where the West was awakened to a new realization about itself. In devoting most of his life to the study and translation of the great dialogues of Plato and the Neoplatonists, Ficino and his colleagues were midwives to the birth of the modern world.

Review:

“From every point of view it is a pleasure to read this perfect introduction to one of the most attractive and influential figures of the Italian Renaissance.” —Daily Telegraph

“Undoubtedly these letters comprise one of the ‘spiritual classics’ of the past thousand years.” —The Spectator

“All that we regard as the norm of Western European art . . . has flowered from Ficino's Florence.” —The Times


“So well translated, so well annotated and so beautifully produced that it is a pleasure to read and possess.” —Heythrop Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Shepheard-Walwyn
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0856830453
• ISBN 13: 9780856830457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176