The Origins of the Platonic Academy of Florence

Arthur M. Field

Published by Princeton University Press 1988

The Origins of the Platonic Academy of Florence

Arthur M. Field

Volume 942 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400859764

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Founded by Cosimo de' Medici in the early 1460s, the Platonic Academy shaped the literary and artistic culture of Florence in the later Renaissance and influenced science, religion, art, and literature throughout Europe in the early modern period. This major study of the Academy's beginnings presents a fresh view of the intellectual and cultural life of Florence from the Peace of Lodi of 1454 to the death of Cosimo a decade later. Challenging commonly held assumptions about the period, Arthur Field insists that the Academy was not a hothouse plant, grown and kept alive by the Medici in the splendid isolation of their villas and courts. Rather, Florentine intellectuals seized on the Platonic truths and propagated them in the heart of Florence, creating for the Medici and other Florentines a new ideology.

Based largely on new or neglected manuscript sources, this book includes discussions of the earliest works by the head of the Academy, Marsilio Ficino, and the first public, Platonizing lectures of the humanist and poet Cristoforo Landino. The author also examines the contributions both of religious orders and of the Byzantines to the Neoplatonic revival.

Originally published in 1988.

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CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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PART ONE. The Philosophical Renaissance and the Role of Intellectuals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART TWΟ. The Florentine Lyceum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
PART THREE. The Florentine Academy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
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Appendix A. One or Two Lorenzo Pisanos? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
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Appendix C. Some Notes on Minor Works of Lorenzo Pisano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
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Index of Manuscripts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
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