HIS357H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Cristoforo Landino, Marsilio Ficino
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Florentine academy : the medici villa at careggi. The symposium (1469), where he presented his influential theory of platonic love as an attraction which moves from a physical to a spiritual plane, ultimately leading the lover to. Shortly after being ordained a priest in 1473, he completed his magnus opus = Theologia platonica , in which he demonstrated the rational confirmation of the christian belief in the personal immortality of the soul could be found in the doctrines of the. Ficino"s theologia platonica is an attempt: (1) to synthesize platonic philosophy and christian theology into a single system. Ficino sees platonism as the discovery of the divinity of man as an image of god and of. God himself through his human image. (2) to prove the immortality of the soul by rational arguments. Angelo poliziano wrote the poem the birth of venice . Sandro botticelli: la primavera [spring], birth of venus contains paegan allegorical figures.