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The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino - whose work on magic was the most influential account written in premodern times - this groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical. Besides Ficino, the premodern story of magic also features Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Aquinas, Agrippa, Pomponazzi, Porta, Bruno, Campanella, Descartes, Boyle, Leibniz, and Newton, to name only a few of the prominent thinkers discussed in this book. Because pictures play a key role in the story of magic, this book is richly illustrated.

Magic --- History. --- Ficino, Marsilio, --- Ficin, Marsile, --- Fichino, Marsiliĭ, --- Fichino, Marsilio, --- Ficinus, Marsilius, --- Ficino, Marcilio, --- Feghinensis, Marsilius, --- Фичино, Марсилио,

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"The story of the beliefs and practices called 'magic' starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its crucial Christian phase in the Middle Ages. Centering on the Renaissance and Marsilio Ficino - whose work on magic was the most influential account written in premodern times - this groundbreaking book treats magic as a classical tradition with foundations that were distinctly philosophical. Besides Ficino, the premodern story of magic also features Plotinus, Iamblichus, Proclus, Aquinas, Agrippa, Pomponazzi, Porta, Bruno, Campanella, Descartes, Boyle, Leibniz, and Newton, to name only a few of the prominent thinkers discussed in this book. Because pictures play a key role in the story of magic, this book is richly illustrated"--

History of civilization --- Esoteric sciences --- Ficinus, Marsilius --- Magic --- History. --- Ficino, Marsilio, --- Political science --- History & Theory. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- Magie --- Histoire --- Ficin, Marsile, --- Fichino, Marsiliĭ, --- Fichino, Marsilio, --- Ficinus, Marsilius, --- Ficino, Marcilio, --- Feghinensis, Marsilius, --- Фичино, Марсилио, --- History

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Die Briefe des der Nachwelt vor allem als Philosoph und Platonübersetzer bekannt gebliebenen Florentiner Humanisten Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) dienten bisher in erster Linie als philosophiegeschichtliche und gelegentlich als biographische Quellen. Das vorliegende Buch liest die von Ficino noch zu Lebzeiten selbst herausgegebenen Briefe aus einem anderen Blickwinkel: als literarische Zeugnisse der Selbstdarstellung und eigenen Verortung in der Gesellschaft der Zeit. Nach einer ausführlichen Einführung in das Epistolarium als ganzes (Textgeschichte, Aufbau, Adressaten, Themen und Formen der enthaltenen Briefe) wendet sich die Studie exemplarisch ausgewählten Texten zu, die zumeist an prominente Adressaten wie Lorenzo de' Medici, Papst Sixtus IV. oder König Matthias von Ungarn gerichtet sind. Die Briefe werden übersetzt sowie eingehend erläutert und kommentiert; der Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung liegt auf den Rollen, die Ficino jeweils einnimmt, und den literarischen Strategien, derer er sich bedient. Typisch humanistische Kommunikationsstrategien verbinden sich dabei mit sehr spezifischen, Ficinos philosophischem Ideengebäude geschuldeten Elementen sowie interessanten historischen Bezügen.

Ficino, Marsilio, --- Briefliteratur. --- Marsilio Ficino. --- Renaissance / humanism. --- Renaissance /Humanismus. --- Selbstdarstellung. --- epistolary literature. --- self-presentation. --- PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical. --- Ficin, Marsile, --- Fichino, Marsiliĭ, --- Fichino, Marsilio, --- Ficinus, Marsilius, --- Ficino, Marcilio, --- Feghinensis, Marsilius, --- Фичино, Марсилио,

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This volume consists of 21 essays on Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the great Florentine scholar, philosopher and priest who was the architect of Renaissance Platonism and whose long-lasting influence on philosophy, love and music theory, medicine and magic extended across Europe. Grouped into three sections, they cover such topics as priesthood, the influence of Hermetic monism, Plotinus and Augustine, Jewish transmission of the prisca theologia , the 15th c. Plato-Aristotle controversy, the soul and its afterlife, the primacy of the will, theriac and musical therapy, the notions of matter, seeds, mirrors and clocks, and other fascinating philosophical and theological issues. Also considered are Ficino’s critics, his relationship to the Camaldolese Order, his letters to princes, his influence on art, on Copernicus, on Chapman, and the nature of the Platonic Academy. Contributors include: Tamara Albertini, Michael J. B. Allen, Francis Ames-Lewis, Donald Beecher, Christopher S. Celenza, Stephen Clucas, Arthur Field, Hiroshi Hirai, Moshe Idel, Dilwyn Knox, Sergius Kodera, Jill Kraye, Dennis F. Lackner, Jörg Lauster, Anthony Levi, John Monfasani, Valery Rees, Clement Salaman, Peter Serracino-Inglott, M. Stéphane Toussaint, and Angela Voss.

Ficino, Marsilio, --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- Platonists --- Theology --- Philosophie de la Renaissance --- Platoniciens --- Théologie --- History --- Histoire --- 141.131 --- 873.4 MARSILIUS FICINUS --- 141.131 Platonisme. Neoplatonisme --- Platonisme. Neoplatonisme --- 873.4 MARSILIUS FICINUS Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur--MARSILIUS FICINUS --- Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur--MARSILIUS FICINUS --- Ficin, Marsile, --- Fichino, Marsiliĭ, --- Fichino, Marsilio, --- Ficinus, Marsilius, --- Ficino, Marcilio, --- Feghinensis, Marsilius, --- Фичино, Марсилио, --- Ficino, Marsilio

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Platonists --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- Platoniciens --- Philosophie de la Renaissance --- Plato --- Ficino, Marsilio, --- Geschiedenis. --- Interpretatie. --- Kunst. --- Philosophie. --- Platonisme. --- Platonismus. --- Plato. --- Ficino, Marsilio. --- Ficinus, Marsilius, --- Italien. --- Ficin, Marsile, --- Fichino, Marsiliĭ, --- Fichino, Marsilio, --- Ficino, Marcilio, --- Feghinensis, Marsilius, --- Фичино, Марсилио, --- Aflāṭūn --- Aplaton --- Bolatu --- Platon, --- Platonas --- Platone --- Po-la-tʻu --- Pʻŭllatʻo --- Pʻŭllatʻon --- Pʻuratʻon --- Πλάτων --- אפלטון --- פלאטא --- פלאטאן --- פלאטו --- أفلاطون --- 柏拉圖 --- 플라톤 --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Platon --- Platoon --- Платон --- プラトン