Studies in the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico

Michael J. B. Allen is a Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA and the winner of the prestigious international Galileo Galilei prize for his work on Renaissance Philosophy. This collection is a companion one to his first Variorum volume, Plato’s Third Eye (1995).

Preface

Acknowledgements

I The Renaissance: Platonism 303-315

The Columbia History of Western Philosophy, ed. Richard H. Popkin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999)

II Cultura hominis: Giovanni Pico, Marsilio Ficino and the Idea of Man 173-196

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Convegno internazionale di studi nel cinquecentesimo anniversario della morte (1494-1994), Mirandola, 4-8

ottobre 1994, ed. Gian Carlo Garfagnini (Florence: Olschki, 1997)

III Renaissance Neoplatonism 435-441

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume III: The Renaissance,

ed. Glyn P. Norton (Cambridge: CUP, 1999)

IV Marsilio Ficino: Daemonic Mathematics and the Hypotenuse of the Spirit 121-137

Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe, ed. Anthony Grafton & Nancy Siraisi (Boston: MIT Press, 1999)

V In principio: Marsilio Ficino on the Life of Text 11-28

Res et Verba in der Renaissance, ed. Eckhard Kessler & Ian Maclean, Wolfenbűtteler Abhandlungen zur Renaissance-forschung 21 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2002)

VI The Ficinian Timaeus and Renaissance Science 238-250

Plato's Timaeus as Cultural Icon, ed. Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003)

VII Paul Oskar Kristeller and Marsilio Ficino: e tenebris revocaverunt 1-18

Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on his Life and Scholarship, ed. John Monfasani (New York: Italica Press, 2006)

VIII Marsilio Ficino, Levitation, and the Ascent to Capricorn 223-240

Éducation, Transmission, Rénovation à la Renaissance, ed. Bruno Pinchard & Pierre Servet, Cahiers du Gagdes 4 (Geneva: Droz, 2006)

IX Marsilio Ficino and the Language of the Past 35-50

Forme del Neoplatonismo, ed. Luisa Simonutti (Florence: Olschki, 2007)

X The Birth Day of Venus: Pico as Platonic Exegete in the Commento and the

Heptaplus 81-113

Pico della Mirandola: New Essays, ed. M. V. Dougherty (Cambridge: CUP, 2007)

XI Quisque in sphaera sua: Plato’s Statesman, Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology

and the Resurrection of the Body 25-48

Rinascimento, 2nd ser., Vol. 47 (2007)

XII At Variance: Marsilio Ficino, Platonism and Heresy 31-44

Platonism at the Origins of Modernity: Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy, edd. Douglas Headley & Sarah Hutton, International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, vol. 196, (Dordrecht: Springer, 2008)

XIII Sending Archedemus: Ficino, Plato’s Second Letter, and its Four Epistolary

Mysteries 413-428

Sol et Homo: Mensch und Natur in der Renaissance: Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag für Eckhard Kessler, ed. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Helga Pirner-Pareschi und Thomas Ricklin (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2008)

XIV To gaze upon the face of God again: Philosophic Statuary, Pygmalion, and

Marsilio Ficino 123-136

Rinascimento, 2nd ser. 48 (2008)

XV Marsilio Ficino on Saturn, the Plotinian Mind, and the Monster of Averroes 11-29

Bruniana & Campanelliana 16 (2010/1)

XVI Eurydice in Hades: Florentine Platonism and an Orphic Mystery 19-40

Nuovi maestri e antichi testi: Umanesimo e Rinascimento alle origini del pensiero moderno: Atti del convegno internazionale di studi in onore di Cesare Vasoli

(Mantova 1-3 dicembre 2010), ed. Stefano Caroti e Vittoria Perrone Compagni

(Florence: Olschki, 2012)

XVII Prometheus among the Florentines: Marsilio Ficino on the Myth of Triadic

Power 27-44

Rinascimento, 2nd ser. 51 (20110

XVIII Ratio omnium divinissima: Plato’s Epinomis, Prophecy, and Marsilio Ficino 469-490

Epinomide: Studi sull'opera e la sua ricezione, ed. Francesca Alesse & Franco Ferrari, with Maria.Cristina Dalfino, Elenchos 60-1 (Naples: Bibliopolis, 2012)

Addenda and Corrigenda

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