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Article: Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2004
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Michael J. B. Allen and Valery Rees, eds., with Martin Davies. Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy.
Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2002. xxii + 493 pp. index. illus. bibl. $125. ISBN: 90-04-11855-1.
No philosopher of the Renaissance has attracted scholarly attention over the last half-century to the degree that Marsilio Ficino has, and it is clear that there are numerous reasons for this. His central role as translator of and commentator on the works of Plato and Plotinus as well as other major Neoplatonic and hermetic sources provided many of the materials which would create profound changes in the philosophical ...