La ricerca della somma felicita in
Marsilio Ficino), Fabio Seller (Grazia, beatitudine e felicita nel De anima di Girolamo Fracastoro) e Domenico Giorgio ("Gioia, gioia, gioia, lacrime di gioia" nella mistica secentesca).
Marsilio Ficino. Edited and translated by Stephen Gersh
Paolo Orvieto's "Religion and Literature in Oligarchic, Medicean, and Savonarolan Florence," explores three phases of Medicean religious and philosophical observance from traditional orthodox Catholicism, to a humanistic theological philosophy, promoted by
Marsilio Ficino, and supported by Lorenzo the Magnificent, and finally the return to the tenets and traditions of the Catholic faith.
According to
Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Symposium of Love, the 'seminal text of Renaissance love theory', feelings of love and melancholy can cause the eyes to appear red or bloodshot.
Transcendence of the sort practiced by Plotinus and early Christianera Hermetists was revived and given new impetus by fifteenth-century philosopher
Marsilio Ficino with his Latin translations of and commentaries on those authors.
D'Elia emphasizes Malatesta's predilections for pagan heroic virtues, attraction to astrology, his brazen sexuality, and penchant for extreme physical conditioning, but perhaps overdraws the Christian/classical tension that humanists like
Marsilio Ficino resolved philosophically by melding and interpreting the one with the other, though without needing to incorporate ancient battlefield heroics and Spartan physical conditioning.
For roughly one thousand years (from the fourth century until the fifteenth-century work of
Marsilio Ficino), to study Plato meant to read Calcidius's translation of the Timaeus along with his commentary.
Modelli di episteme neoplatonica nella Firenze del '400: legnoseologie di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola e di
Marsilio Ficino. Simone Fellina.
Having fully assimilated the idea of Platonic furor, the Florentine humanist and physician,
Marsilio Ficino, states that the production of verse and song was owing to divine inspiration, and that poetry was a type of divine frenzy equal to mystery, prophecy, and love.