Three Books on Life – September 1, 1989

Three Books on Life (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) Hardcover – September 1, 1989

Author: Visit Amazon's Marsilio Ficino Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0866980415 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Text: English, Italian (translation)

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• Series: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies
• Hardcover: 528 pages
• Publisher: Mrts; New edition edition (September 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0866980415
• ISBN-13: 978-0866980418
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,277,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

In the second half of the twentieth century, readers of English who were interested in the Renaissance had their attention drawn to Ficino's "Three Books on Life" (known by various titles, such as "Liber de Vita" and "De Vita Triplici") by several influential books. Chief among them were D.P. Walker's "Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella" and Frances A. Yates' "Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition." The many readers of Robert Burton's seventeenth-century masterpiece "The Anatomy of Melancholy" had already encountered frequent citations of "Ficinus" on melancholy, its causes and cure. Any attempt to find an English translation, or even a good text of the Latin original, however, came up with nothing.
For a moment it seemed that Charles Boer had provided one with "The Book of Life," originally published in 1980, and currently in print. It was an attractively printed and extremely readable translation. Unfortunately, it was not only based on unreliable versions of the Latin, but it paid little if any attention to the vast scholarship needed to understand Ficino. Since Boer was dismissive of the existing Ficino scholarship, hostile reviews were perhaps to be expected, but I can testify from experience that Boer's work was more frustrating than useful.
Fortunately, a far superior translation, along with a carefully edited Latin text, useful introduction and helpful notes, and glossarial indexes, was already in progress. It appeared about a decade later, and, like Boer's, has been reprinted several times. It is an impressive accomplishment, providing a rich source of information on Ficino's theological, philosophical, medical, astrological, and magical readings and world-view, and how they interact.

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