Icastes by Michael J B Allen
Michael Allen's latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine thinker of the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino, will be welcomed by philosophers, literary scholars, and historians of the Renaissance, as well as by classicists. Ficino was responsible for inaugurating, shaping, and disseminating the wide-ranging philosophico-cultural movement known as Renaissance Platonism, and his views on the Sophist, which he saw as Plato's preeminent ontological dialogue, are of signal interest. This dialogue also served Ficino as a vehicle for exploring a number of other humanist, philosophical, and magical preoccupations, including the theme of man the artist and creator.
Michael J. B. Allen is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Besides having written numerous articles and books on Renaissance literature and philosophy, he is the co-editor (with Kenneth Muir) of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520064195 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520064194 |
| Title | Icastes |
| Author | Michael J B Allen |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 1989-11-27 |
| Number of pages | 327 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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