#marsilio Ficino

[girlboccaccio]

Italian literature tournament idea?

I have many things to do but still I want to fill the void of my existence, so a week ago I thought "why don't create a tumblr tournament between the authors from italian literature?".

For the names there are two simple option:

or I will chose the names from the literary canon

or I will open a google form when everyone, by a specified date, will insert the author names that will be put in the tounament.

both the three options combined: I will but the names already chosen under this post and after that open a google form if anyone else want to add some names. The more the merrier the longer = more violence between our favourite author from high school <3

The combination for the various challenges will be sorted randomly, I think I'll use a program/generator to do the job.

Idk if somebody else did the same thing for other literature, like the french or russian, but this idea could be used for various possibilities.

+ I think I'll add also playwrites, for me theatre and literature are different fields but a playwriter at the end of the road is still an author.

I also wanted to do the same thing for italian art, but is a field too wide and maybe in a future I could do it more by art schools/genres (best baroque artist/architect, best renaissance artist/architect etc).

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

ok also, Carol Kaske, this statement is absurd. Willful blindness, at this rate. Like, obviously using modern terminology for what Ficino experienced and how he would have understood himself and his feelings and attractions is obviously limiting etc. etc. <- insert the usual disclaimer here.

However, to deny there is queerness of some capacity in his letters is patently absurd.

[illustratus]

Six Tuscan Poets - Sei poeti toscani by Giorgio Vasari

From left to right: Marsilio Ficino, Cristoforo Landino, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, and Guido Cavalcanti

[mascamaiorum]

Joseph Campbell, THE MYSTERY NUMBER OF THE GODDESS

The Indian (Sānkhya) philosophers recognized as arising three “qualities or characteristics” (guṇas), through the interrelation of which all of “nature” (prakṛti) was seen as motivated; namely, “inertia, mass, or heaviness” (tamas); “energy and vitality” (rajas); and the “harmony or clarity” (sattva) of any balanced relationship of the opposed two. In Pythagorean terms, the same three would correspond, respectively, to (1) the “unlimited,” (2) the “limiting,” and (3) the “harmony” or “fitting together” (harmonia) of any “beautiful order of things” (kosmos), whether as a macrocosm (the universe), microcosm (an individual), or mesocosm (ideal society or work of art). And the number representative in that system of such a visible order is 4.

The Pythagorean tetraktys, viewed as an upward-pointing triangle built of 9 points with a tenth, as bindu, in the center, suggests an Indian tantric diagram (yantra) symbolic of the female power in its spiritually alluring role recognized by Goethe in the last two lines of his Faust: “Das Ewig-Weibliche/Zieht uns hinan!”

The trinity here is not of three male divinities with the Virgin then as a feminine fourth but of the classical three Graces with Apollo as a masculine fourth. Both the names and the postures of the Graces tell of the qualities of their influence: (1) Thalia (“Blooming, Abundance”) unites and relates her opposed companions; (2) Euphrosyne (“Mirth, Festivity, Good Cheer”) moves away from the God to the descent, ninefold, of the Muses; while (3) Aglaia (“Splendor, Beauty, Triumph, Adornment”) confronts him, returning to source. Pico and Ficino revered these three as an exemplary triad archetypal of all the others of classical myth. In Pico’s words, “He that understands profoundly and clearly how the unity of Venus is unfolded in the trinity of the Graces, and the unity of Necessity in the trinity of the Fates, and the unity of Saturn in the trinity of Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, knows the proper way of proceeding in Orphic theology.” For as Edgar Wind points out in commenting on this passage, “it was an axiom of Platonic theology that every god exerts his power in a traidic rhythm.”

[eyeoftheheart]

“But why do we think that love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.”

― Marsilio Ficino De amore 6.10

[Sed cur magum putamus amorem? Quia tota vis magice in amore consistit. Magice opus est attractio rei unius ab alia ex quadam cognatione nature]

[dreams-of-mutiny]

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

~ Marsilio Ficino

[autumncrowcus]

At the shrines of Apollo, a healing took place. In a state of trance it is said that the initiate heard the music of the spheres and was made whole. ‘It is hardly surprising’, says Ficino, ‘that both music and medicine are often practiced by the same men’, since they are united in the power of the one god. Ficino found his vocation as a healer confirmed in the words of Orpheus. ‘Orpheus, in his book of hymns’, he tells us, ‘asserts that Apollo, by his vital rays, bestows health and life on all and drives away disease. By the sounding strings, that is, by their vibrations and power, he regulates everything; by the lowest string, winter; by the highest string, summer; and by the middle strings, he brings in spring and autumn.’ Apollo’s lyre thus becomes a model for the harmony of the whole cosmos, uniting the physical order with the spiritual, the body with the soul. In revealing to the listener or player the harmonic proportions in his own soul, through number and pitch, the lyre is both a visual and audible image of a secret order to be found beyond the level of sense-perception, an articulation of the hidden relationships between different levels of reality.

-From “Orpheus Redivivus: The Musical Language of Marsilio Ficino,” by Angela Voss

[oubliettederien]

“Giacché i singoli uomini belli sono resi belli da una forma comune a ogni individuo; ma la forma comune ai molti uomini belli è impressa dall’aspetto (species) divino, come un carattere (character) impresso da un sigillo, poiché l’intera moltitudine è ricondotta all’uno che è al di sopra del molteplice.” ‒ Marsilio Ficino

[oubliettemagazine]

Anima Mundi di Marsilio Ficino #11: Del bello o della grazia

“Giacché i singoli uomini belli sono resi belli da una forma comune a ogni individuo; ma la forma comune ai molti uomini belli è impressa dall’aspetto (species) divino, come un carattere (character) impresso da un sigillo, poiché l’intera moltitudine è ricondotta all’uno che è al di sopra del molteplice.” ‒ Marsilio Ficino Anima Mundi – Marsilio Ficino #11 Del bello o della grazia Undicesima…

[avisfall]

Keitt, A. (2013). The devil in the Old World: anti-superstition literature, medical humanism and preternatural philosophy in early modern Spain. Angels, demons and the New World, 15-39.

When I read Examen de ingenios para las ciencias written by Juan Huarte de San Juan (1529-1588) it strikes me that he seems to have absorbed the idea of elevating soul (& poetry as a divine frenzy) proposed by Marsilio Ficino. In Huarte’s theory the faculty of imagination is related to the quality heat in Galen’s temperament theory. It is heat that brings to imagination a feature of promptnesses, and establishes a direct link between imagination and (artistic) creation.

In page 109 of the English version Huarte says: “Three degrees of heat, and this quality so extended (as we have before expressed) breeds an utter loss of the understanding.”

…which, is the key to poetry writing. I am glad that there is a paper confirming my guess. (And as we know how much Ficino loves the concept of melancholy.)

[asklepiean]

Studying history of religion(s)/western philosophy with an academic approach and saying religious paradigms instead of beliefs are truly the only thing that keeps you mentally sane when your whole practice is shifted by 1.000+ years and you're required to hold conflicting(?) systems at the same time

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Marsilio writing letters to himself.

I’m not sure the context that this is situated in—maaaybe Pulci related? It’s the right year for the start of that grievance. But maybe it’s something else entirely. The footnotes weren’t helpful so alas, a little in the dark.

It could be Lorenzo related? We see a cooling in their relationship around this time and I know Marsilio felt a little betrayed/hurt that it took Lorenzo two or three years before he shut Pulci down in terms of the more flagrant public insults (always done in verse because this is the Renaissance baybeee). That said, who knows. Pure idle speculation on my side.

But that aside, it’s quite an interesting letter and gives some insight on how Marsilio certainly sought to conduct himself, even if he occasionally fell short of his own ideal and expectations.

[philosophy-uml]

[6.3.1] Marsilio Ficino Ethics of Love

[6.3.1] Marsilio Ficino Ethics of Love

The ethics of Love is an important theme for Marsilio Ficino (1433–99): Ficino defines spirit as quality of the soul Love mediates human beings Love can be true and love and false love. The following OntoUML diagram shows the main classes in Ficino’s model: ClassDescriptionRelationsHumanBeing“Rational Soul (in which human beings take part), …”RationalSoul“Ficino’s soul-body dualism was not…

[santoschristos]

“Why do we think love is a magician? Because the whole power of magic consists in love. The work of magic is the attraction of one thing by another because of a certain affinity of nature.”

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499)

Art: Nigel Jackson @SmaragdinaVisio

[brother-emperors]

if you've ever wondered how long something can sit in my WIP folder, this one is probably the idea I've been kicking around the longest

so. you see. what happened was.

last year I was reading about socratic dialogues in the renaissance right. only at one point, I got it confused with platonic discussions, and when you start reading about platonic discussions of love, you run into marsilio ficino, and I just kind of. stayed there until I ran out of books to read, and finally decided to finish this up!

Plato's Persona: Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance Humanism, and Platonic Traditions, Denis J. J. Robinchaud

bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost

[talonabraxas]

Full Moon in Leo

Uranus stations direct following the Leo Full Moon, all of the planets will be moving direct until Mercury eventually stations retrograde on 1 April. As a result, the month ahead will be a key period to seize for grounding your focus in the work and relationships that matter the most to you, while making substantial forward progress on the goals you have for the years ahead.

Under the illumination of the Leo Full Moon, Venus in Capricorn and Saturn in Pisces will be offering one another resources in ways that support the yoking of creativity to disciplined effort. Venus in the earthy domicile of Kronos will be applying to a mutually received sextile with Saturn in the exaltation, triplicity, and bounds of Aphrodite. Though Pisces has watery terrain that softens the cut and dry nature of Saturn, lessening the strength of Saturn for constructing hard boundaries, the propensity that Saturn always possesses for contemplative insight can assist the work of Venus. Marsilio Ficino wrote that the reason Saturn excels at discovering and retaining things is that the distant, ringed planet pulls us down to the center of individual subjects, from the external to the internal, from the circumference to the center; yet while forcing investigations to the center of individual subjects, at the same time Saturn leads us to contemplate the highest realm, because Saturn is the highest planet. The harmony of the sextile is a soft aspect, but the synergy between Venus and Saturn is a boon for those immersed in creative endeavors. --Gray Crawford

Moons of Ouranos (Uranus) ♅ Talon Abraxas