By Susan Byrne
ISBN-10: 1442650567
ISBN-13: 9781442650565
As the 1st translator of Plato’s entire works into Latin, the Florentine author Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) and his mixture of Neoplatonic and airtight philosophy have been primary to the highbrow surroundings of the Renaissance. In Spain, his works have been frequently learn, quoted, and referenced, no less than until eventually the 19th century, whilst literary critics and philosophers wrote him out of the historical past of early glossy Spain.
In Ficino in Spain, Susan Byrne makes use of textual and bibliographic facts to teach the pervasive effect of Ficino’s writings and translations at the Spanish Renaissance. Cataloguing every little thing from particular mentions of his identify in significant texts to glossed volumes of his works in Spanish libraries, Byrne exhibits that Spanish writers comparable to Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Garcilaso de l. a. Vega all answered to Ficino and tailored his imagery for his or her personal works. an immense contribution to the research of Spanish literature and tradition from the 15th to the 17th centuries, Ficino in Spain recovers the position that airtight and Neoplatonic notion performed on the earth of Spanish literature.
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