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De vita libri tres
The De vita libri tres or Three Books on Life was written in the years 1480-1489 by Italian Platonist (Platonic idealism is the theory that the substantive reality around us is only a reflection of a higher truth. That truth, Plato argued, is the abstraction. He believed that ideas were more real than things. He developed a vision of two worlds: a world of unchanging ideas and a world of changing physical objects.) Marsilio Ficino. The first manuscript published in late 1400's. It remained in print until the eighteenth century. De vita is a odd mix of philosophy, medicine, magic and astrology, and is considered the first book ever written about the health of the intellectual. Alongside beautiful passages explaining the immortality and divine source and nature of the soul, there are astrological charts and remedies, sly speeches from various Greek gods arguing with one another, philosophical digressions, strange medieval prescriptions for various ailments and magical remedies and talismans. Ficino was a physician, and the son of a physician. De vita is an example of the medical thinking of the early Renaissance. Ficino was the first translator of Plato into Latin. The book's thrust depends on the tension Ficino tries to resolve intellectually--a tension that is typical of the syncretism of much of the early Renaissance--between Classical philosophy and religion and Christian belief. By filtering both through cosmology of Plato, Ficino attempts to reconcile these world-views. An English translation by Charles Boer of the De vita was published in 1982 as Three Books on Life (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) and is available for purchase online. |
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