Orpheus and Neoplatonism in Renaissance Florence
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In this paper I propose, against general explanations based on doctrinal assumptions (e.g., Allen and Falco), that the kind of Platonism (and its relationship with Orpheus) reviving in the philosophical works of Marsilio Ficino is anchored in the exercise of textual technologies inherited from the late Neoplatonists. To show this, I examine Ficino’s refusal to comment onSymposium (179d) where Orpheus is presented as a counterexample of the lovers’ courage and I compare it to the position of Pico della Mirandola on the same passage. This way, I distinguish Ficino’s Platonism from Pico’s and I emphasize its importance as a transmitter of the Platonic tradition that includes a committed Orphism not only doctrinally but also in a textual manner.
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