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Marsilio Ficino in Germany from Renaissance to Enlightenment

A Reception History

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Titre : Marsilio Ficino in Germany from Renaissance to Enlightenment Sous-titre : A Reception History Année : 2022 Pages : 1016 Collection : Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance ISSN : 0082-6081 Numéro : DCXXXIII
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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.

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 Ficino€™s 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

  • Arbitrium, Volume 42, 2024, pp. 53-58.

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