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1 online resource (1088 pages) |
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THE INFLUENCE OF MARSILIO FICINO (1433-1494) ON ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE: Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare -- Volume I; Copyright Page; Table of Contents -- Volume I & II; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; Volume I; Chapter One -- Ancient Egypt Meets Renaissance Florence; Chapter Two -- The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus; Chapter Three -- The Hermetica; Chapter Four -- Ficino and Plato's Symposium; Chapter Five -- Ficino and Plato's Phaedrus; Chapter Six -- Fieirto's Major Astrology; Chapter Seven -- Ficino's Minor Astrology; Chapter Eight -- Book of the Sun |
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Chapter Nine -- Ficino: Five Questions on the MindChapter Ten -- Ficino's Greatest Work: His Collected Letters; Chapter Eleven -- Aratus, Astrologer From the Ancient World; Chapter Twelve -- Lucretius, Ancient Poet of the Atom; Chapter Thirteen -- Manilius, The Most Devoted of Ancient Astrologers; Chapter Fourteen -- Pythagoras, First Magus of the Ancient World; Chapter Fifteen -- Macrobius, the Ultimate Commentator; Chapter Sixteen -- Plotinus, the Greatest Platonist Since Plato; Chapter Seventeen -- Proclus, the Philosopher of the Endless Sentences; Chapter Eighteen -- Iamblichus, Master of Theurgy |
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Chapter Nineteen -- The Angelic Hierarchies of Pseudo-DionysiusChapter Twenty -- Boethius, The Philosopher of Lasting Values; Untitled; Chapter Twenty-One -- Julianus, the Unsung Mystic; Chapter Twenty-two 0 The Egyptian Hieroglyphics of Horapollo; Chapter Twenty-three -- The Meaning of Words in Nicolas of Cusa; Chapter Twenty-four -- The Wondrous Achievement of Pico della Mirandola; Chapter Twenty-five -- The Many Sides of Cornelius Agrippa; Chapter Twenty-six -- The Pathbreaking Life of Paracelsus; Chapter Twenty-seven -- William Adlington, Translator of Elizabethan Times |
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Chapter Twenty-eight -- Thomas Norton, Poet Laureate of AlchemyChapter Twenty-nine -- Jacob Boehme, the Shoemaker Turned Mystic; Chapter Thirty -- John Dee, the Magus of Queen Elizabeth; Chapter Thirty-one -- Giordano Bruno, Two Almost Forgotten Works; Chapter Thirty-two -- The Extraordinary Life of Tomasso Campanella; Chapter Thirty-three -- Arthur Dee, Jacobean Magus and Son of John Dee; Chapter Thirty-four -- Johann Reuchlin, the Far-reaching Influence of His Kabbalah; Chapter Thirty-five -- Basil Valentin, Master Alchemist; Chapter Thirty-six -- Jean of Spain, Master Alchemist |
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Chapter Thirty-seven -- Six Alchemical Treatises on the Philosopher's StoneChapter Thirty-eight -- Robert Fludd, the Magus Who Opposed Kepler; THE INFLUENCE OF MARSILIO FICINO (1433-1494): Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare -- Volume II; Dedication; Volume II; Chapter Thirty-nine: Marlowe and Shakespeare's Narrative Poems; Chapter Forty: Marlovve's Minor Plays; Chapter Forty-one: Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two; Chapter Forty-two: Shakespeare's Earliest History-King John; Chapter Forty-three: Shakespeare's Early Gothic Melodramas-Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens |
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These two volumes are the first extensive study of the influence of Marsilio Ficino on major English poets. Ficino lived in Florence, Italy from 1433 to 1499. He introduced Plato to the Renaissance by his translations of the philosopher's complete works with detailed commentary. He wrote important works on astrology, a multi-volume work on Platonic Theology, and hundreds of brilliant public letters on a variety of subjects |
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Chapter Forty-four: W.H. Auden Connects Ficino and Shakespeare |
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Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499 -- Influence
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Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499 fast |
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Occultism in literature -- History -- 16th century
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Neoplatonism in literature -- History -- 16th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Neoplatonism in literature
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Occultism in literature
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Philosophy.
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History
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Electronic book
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9780773407749 |
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077340774X |
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