Michael Allen's latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine thinker of the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino, will be welcomed by philosophers, literary scholars, and historians of the Renaissance, as well as by classicists. Ficino was responsible for inaugurating, shaping, and disseminating the wide-ranging philosophico-cultural movement known as Renaissance Platonism, and his views on the Sophist, which he saw as Plato's preeminent ontological dialogue, are of signal interest. This dialogue also served Ficino as a vehicle for exploring a number of other humanist, philosophical, and magical preoccupations, including the theme of man the artist and creator.
- ISBN10 0866988181
- ISBN13 9780866988186
- Publish Date 29 July 2016 (first published 27 November 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 328
- Language English