Ficino on Force, Magic, and Prayers
Neoplatonic and Hermetic Influences in Ficino’s Three Books on Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10413786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Denis J-J Robichaud (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-87 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/691830 |
| OpenAlex | W2591969653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
This article analyzes new evidence from the marginalia to Ficino’s Plotinus manuscripts and offers a novel reading of Ficino’s “De Vita” 3. It settles scholarly disagreements concerning Paul O. Kristeller’s manuscript research and Frances Yates’s Hermetic thesis about “De Vita” 3, and reconsiders accepted conclusions regarding the centrality of Hermetic magic in Ficino’s philosophy. It demonstrates the origins and sources for “De Vita” 3 in Ficino’s reading of Plotinus’s explanations of prayer, and also reveals Iamblichus’s overlooked influence on Ficino: on the performative nature of philosophy in “De Vita” 3, and even on Ficino’s acknowledgment of the pseudonymity of the Hermetica
Art · Linguistics · Literature · MAGIC (telescope · Marginalia · Neoplatonism · Performative utterance · Physics · Prayer · Reading (process · Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy
Natural particulars
Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition
The Egyptian Hermes
Roger Bacon and the Origins of Perspectiva in the Middle Ages
Roger Bacon's Philosophy of Nature
Pythagoras in the Early Renaissance
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic
A History of Pythagoreanism
Nuptial Arithmetic
Influences
Philolaus of Croton
Nuptial Arithmetic. Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic
Platonis dialogi graece et latine Partis 1, Volumen 1
Was Plotinus a Magician
Pythagoras in the Renaissance
Scholastic Philosophy and Renaissance Magic in the De vita of Marsilio Ficino
Defenders of the Text
The Egyptian hermes. A historical approach to the late pagan mind
Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution
The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo
The Greeks and the Irrational
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |