Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Acknowledgements

pp.：  7 – 8

Notes on Contributors

pp.：  9 – 12

Introduction

pp.：  13 – 22

Part I The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino

pp.：  23 – 24

Ficino and the God of the Platonists

pp.：  25 – 36

Monstrous Melancholy: Ficino and the Physiological Causes of Atheism

pp.：  37 – 56

Quo vertam oculos ut te laudem? Aspects of Praise in Ficino’s Writing

pp.：  57 – 78

The First Pico–Ficino Controversy

pp.：  79 – 100

‘Et nuper Plethon’—Ficino’s Praise of Georgios Gemistos Plethon and his Rational Religion

pp.：  101 – 116

Zoroaster and the Flying Egg: Psellos, Gerson and Ficino

pp.：  117 – 128

‘Jupiter tames Saturn’: Astrology in Ficino’s Epistolae

pp.：  129 – 144

Ficino’s Hymns and the Renaissance Platonic Academy

pp.：  145 – 160

Part II The Influence of Marsilio Ficino

pp.：  161 – 162

Studied as an Oration: Readers of Pico’s letters, Ancient and Modern

pp.：  163 – 210

Platonic Love on the Rocks: Castiglione Counter-Currents in Renaissance Italy

pp.：  211 – 238

John Dee’s Annotations to Ficino’s Translation of Plato

pp.：  239 – 260

Marsilio Ficino and the Chemical Art

pp.：  261 – 284

Earth’s Soul and Spontaneous Generation: Fortunio Liceti’s Criticism of Ficino’s Ideas on the Origin of Life

pp.：  285 – 312

Ficinian Influence on Henry More’s Arguments for the Soul’s Immortality

pp.：  313 – 328

Neo-Platonic modes of concordism versus definitions of difference: Simplicius, Augustinus Steuco and Ralph Cudworth versus Marco Antonio Zimara and Benedictus Pererius

pp.：  329 – 354

Bibliography

pp.：  355 – 380

Index

pp.：  381 – 396