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Grantley MCDONALD

Grantley MCDONALD

Marsilio Ficino in Germany from Renaissance to Enlightenment

A Reception History

Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance

Table of Illustrations and Figures Preface PART ONE: MEMORY Chapter One: A Reception History The reception of Renaissance Platonism in German Studies The reception of Renaissance Platonism in art history The reception of Renaissance Platonism in the history of the natural sciences The reception of Renaissance Platonism in the history of philosophy Texts in a tangle Chapter Two: The memory of Ficino north of the Alps The laus Florentiae as a rhetorical topos in the work of German humanists The memory of Ficino’s person Chapter Three: The diffusion of Ficino’s work in manuscript and print Northern and Central European manuscript sources of Ficino’s work Ficino’s work in print PART TWO: THREE KEY CONCEPTS IN FICINO’S WORK: ANCIENT THEOLOGY, MELANCHOLIA, CELESTIAL INFLUENCE Chapter Four: The Ancient Theology in sixteenth-century Germany: six case-studies Conrad Peutinger Johannes Murmellius Johann Eck Desiderius Erasmus Laurentius Corvinus Nicolaus Copernicus Evaluating the implications of the Ancient Theology Chapter Five: A manual for the scholarly life: De vita Philipp Ulstad Gulielmus Insulanus Menapius Grevibrugensis Jason Pratensis Medicine for the common man: Walter Ryff and Andreas Sommer Georg Pictorius Heinrich Rantzau Gregor Horstius Chapter Six: As above, so below. Astrology, seminal ideas and the metaphysics of light Johannes Rosenbach ( Johannes ab Indagine) The great conjunction of 1524 and the universal deluge Developments in astrological theory during the sixteenth century Ficino as an enemy of astrology: Johannes Lange, Johannes Lensaeus and Otto Casmann Kepler, Schaerer, Feselius and the “new star” of 1604 The uses of astrology Chapter Seven: Ficino and alchemy Paracelsus Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Paracelsians Pseudonymous works PART THREE: STUDIES OF THE RECEPTION OF FICINO’S WORK IN EIGHT GEOGRAPHICAL CENTRES Chapter Eight: Tübingen and Stuttgart Martin Prenninger Johannes Reuchlin Nicolaus Ellenbog Chapter Nine: Nuremberg Conrad Celtis, poeta laureatus Johannes and Willibald Pirckheimer The physicians of Nuremberg: Hartmann Schedel, Hieronymus Münzer, Dietrich Ulsenius and Ulrich Pinder The Nuremberg Poets’ School Albrecht Dürer Chapter Ten: Leipzig Paulus Niavis Johannes Landsberger Jacobus Barinus Matthaeus Lupinus Calidomius Conrad Wimpina “Laurentius” and the Tractatulus contra poetice detractores (c. 1505) Astronomy and ethics: Conrad Tockler, Magnus Hundt and Virgilius Wellendorffer Chapter Eleven: Strasbourg and Sélestat Johannes Geiler von Kaisersberg Jacob Wimpheling Johannes Adelphus Müling Das buch des lebens (1505) Lilium musice plane (1506) De christiana religione (1507) Margarita facetiarum (1508/1509) Thomas Murner Beatus Rhenanus Chapter Twelve: Erfurt and Gotha Nicolaus Marschalck Heinrich Fischer (Aquilonipolensis) Conrad Mutianus Rufus Helius Eobanus Hessus Chapter Thirteen: Cologne Hermann Buschius Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim Oratio in praelectione Convivii Platonis Oratio in praelectione Hermetis Trismegisti De occulta philosophia Chapter Fourteen: Wittenberg Otto Beckman Luther’s critique of the Ancient Theology Later Lutheran attitudes towards the Ancient Theology Philipp Melanchthon Melanchthon on the distinction between philosophy and theology Universal harmony and astrology in Melanchthon’s thought Melanchthon and the Neoplatonic metaphysics of light Melanchthon’s reception of Ficino’s psychology Responses to Melanchthon’s Ficinian psychology: Johannes Placotomus, Matthaeus Dresser, John Woolton, Johannes Stigelius and Wilhelm Adolf Scribonius Ficino’s Letter of Truth and Protestant apologetic The place of Ficino’s work in heterodox Lutheranism Sebastian Franck Samuel Eisenmenger (Siderocrates) Valentin Weigel The place of Ficino’s work in orthodox Lutheran scholasticism of the seventeenth century Chapter Fifteen: Switzerland Johann Ulrich Surgant Huldrych Zwingli Heinrich Bullinger Jean Calvin Philology and printing in Basel Revisions to Ficino’s Plato translation Pietro Perna and the revision of Ficinos Plotinus translation Editions of Ficino’s Opera omnia PART FOUR: CHANGING WORLDS, CHANGING MINDS: FICINO’S WORK AFTER THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY Chapter Sixteen: Ficino’s ghost Chapter Seventeen: The changing fortunes of Ficino’s theory magic and dietetics from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century Talismanic magic The persistence of Renaissance cosmology and medicine The survival of Ficino’s scholarly dietetics Chapter Eighteen: Ficino and the encyclopaedists Bartholom¤us Keckermann Rudolph Goclenius Johann Adam Scherzer Tobias Pfanner Jacob Masen Johann Jacob Hofmann Daniel Georg Morhof Chapter Nineteen: Opposition to Ficino’s work Literary objections to Ficino’s style Philosophical objectios to Ficino: Giambattista Crispo, Andreas Libavius and Henning Arnisaeus Religious objections to Ficino: Ludwig Crocius, Johann Heinrich Alsted and Christoph Besold Objections in natural philosophy Thomas Erastus Nicolas Guibert Daniel Sennert Opposition to the Ancient Theology The Casaubon affair Continued defence of the Hermetica The Ancient Theology and early modern religious issues Opposition to Ficino’s medical theories Opposition to Ficino’s theory of language: Abraham Mylius and Johann Christian Frommann The passing of the magical episteme Conclusion Bibliography Abbreviations Editions of Ficino’s works Primary sources by authors other than Ficino Secondary literature and reference works Manuscripts Index

The philosopher and humanist Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) has attracted scholarly attention as translator of Plato, the Corpus Hermeticum, Plotinus and other Neoplatonists, and for his complex synthesis of Platonism and Christianity. While most previous studies of Ficino’s reception have concentrated on Italy, France, England and Spain, this book presents a comprehensive study of his reception in Germany and neighbouring areas, examining how Northern writers between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries remembered and reinvented Ficino’s person and work. Focussed chapters examine the ways German authors adapted his theories of the Ancient Theology, melancholia, celestial influence and poetic inspiration, and used his writings in related fields such as alchemy and witchcraft. This book also examines the critiques of those who rejected Ficino’s work, providing context for those who embraced his ideas. The most comprehensive bibliography of printed editions of Ficino’s work since Kristeller forms the basis for a bibliometric analysis.

Le philosophe et humaniste Marsile Ficin (1433-1499) a fait l’objet de plusieurs études en tant que traducteur de Platon, du « Corpus Hermeticum », de Plotin et d’autres néoplatoniciens, et pour sa synthèse complexe du platonisme et du christianisme. Alors que les études précédentes sur la réception de Ficin se concentraient principalement sur l’Italie, la France, l’Angleterre et l’Espagne, ce livre présente une large étude de sa réception en Allemagne et dans les régions voisines, examinant la réappropriation de son œuvre par les penseurs septentrionaux du XVe au XVIIIe siècle. Il examine la manière dont les auteurs allemands adaptèrent ses théories sur l’Ancienne Théologie, la mélancolie, l’influence céleste et l’inspiration poétique, et comment ils utilisèrent ses écrits dans des domaines contigus tels que l’alchimie et la sorcellerie. L’ouvrage étudie également les détracteurs de l’œuvre de Ficin, étoffant e contexte dans lequel d’autres adoptèrent ses idées. La bibliographie des éditions imprimées des œuvres de Ficin la plus complète depuis Kristeller constitue la base d’une analyse bibliométrique.

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