Book contents
- Plotinus’ Legacy
- Plotinus’ Legacy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I The Italian Renaissance
- Chapter 1 Marsilio Ficino as Commentator on Plotinus: Some Case Studies
- Chapter 2 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on Virtue, Happiness, and Magic
- Part II Sixteenth-Century France
- Part III The “Cambridge Platonists”
- Part IV German Romanticism
- Part V The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Appendix: Chronology of Editions and Translations of Plotinus1
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on Virtue, Happiness, and Magic
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Book contents
- Plotinus’ Legacy
- Plotinus’ Legacy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I The Italian Renaissance
- Chapter 1 Marsilio Ficino as Commentator on Plotinus: Some Case Studies
- Chapter 2 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on Virtue, Happiness, and Magic
- Part II Sixteenth-Century France
- Part III The “Cambridge Platonists”
- Part IV German Romanticism
- Part V The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
- Appendix: Chronology of Editions and Translations of Plotinus1
- Index
- References
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- Plotinus' LegacyThe Transformation of Platonism from the Renaissance to the Modern Era, pp. 44 - 70Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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