Marsilio Ficino

By: Voss, Angela

Marsilio Ficino was one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance. Though an ordained priest, he was also a practicing astrologer and magician whose daunting life's work was to reconcile religious faith with philosophical reason -- which included integrating pagan magical practice with Christianity. In a lengthy introduction, editor Angela Voss puts Ficino's achievement in context as a complete re-visioning of traditional astrological practice and the beginning of a humanistic and psychological approach that prefigured contemporary holistic approaches to astrology as therapy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556435606
• ISBN13: 9781556435607
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.5"