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To Gaze upon the Face of God again: Philosophic Statuary, Pygmalion and Marsilio FicinoRinascimento 48 123. 2008.
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With Martin Davies, edsIn Michael J. B. Allen, Valery Rees & Martin Davies (eds.), Marsilio Ficino: his theology, his philosophy, his legacy, Brill. 2002.
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Prometheus among the florentines: Marsilio Ficino on the myth of triadic powerRinascimento 51 27-44. 2011.
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1The birth day of Venus: Pico as platonic exegete in the Commento and the HeptaplusIn M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico Della Mirandola: New Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2007.
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Marsilio Ficino on Saturn, the Plotinian mind, and the monster of AverroesIn Anna Akasoy & Guido Giglioni (eds.), Renaissance Averroism and its aftermath: Arabic philosophy in early modern Europe, Springer. 2013.
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53Two commentaries on the phaedrus: Ficino's indebtedness to hermiasJournal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 43 (1): 110-129. 1980.
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11Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was one of the luminaries of the Florentine Renaissance and the scholar responsible for the revival of Platonism. The translator and interpreter of the works of both Plato and Plotinus as well as of various Hermetic and Neoplatonic texts, Ficino was also a musician, priest, magus and psychotherapist, an original philosopher and the author of a vast and important correspondence with the intellectual figures of his day including Lorenzo the Magnificent. Professor Allen …Read more
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79Marsilio Ficino: his theology, his philosophy, his legacy (edited book)Brill. 2002.This volume consists of 21 essays on Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus-priest who was the architect of Renaissance Platonism.
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6Studies in the platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni PicoRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2017.Fifteen of these essays by one of the leading authorities on Renaissance Platonism explore the complex philosophical, hermeneutical, and mythological issues addressed by the Florentine, Marsilio Ficino (1433-99). Ficino was the pre-eminent Platonist of his time and a distinguished philosopher, scholar and magus who had an enormous influence on the intellectual and cultural life of two and a half centuries, and who is one of the most important witnesses to the preoccupations of his age, above all…Read more
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10Icastes: Marsilio Ficino's Interpretation of Plato's Sophist, Five Studies, with a Critical Edition and TranslationUniversity of California Press. 1989.Michael Allen's latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine thinker of the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino, will be welcomed by philosophers, literary scholars, and historians of the Renaissance, as well as by classicists. Ficino was responsible for inaugurating, shaping, and disseminating the wide-ranging philosophico-cultural movement known as Renaissance Platonism, and his views on the _Sophist_, which he saw as Plato's preeminent ontological dialogue, are of signal interest. This…Read more
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7Icastes: Marsilio Ficino's Interpretation of Plato's SophistAcmrs (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance. 2016.New 2016 paperback edition of the original 1989 printing (out-of-print). Michael Allen's latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine thinker of the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino, will be welcomed by philosophers, literary scholars, and historians of the Renaissance, as well as by classicists. Ficino was responsible for inaugurating, shaping, and disseminating the wide-ranging philosophico-cultural movement known as Renaissance Platonism, and his views on the Sophist, which he saw a…Read more
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21Compassion as an antidote to crueltyBehavioral and Brain Sciences 29 (3): 229-230. 2006.The impulse toward violence and cruelty is endemic to the human species. But so, likewise, is the impulse toward compassionate behavior. Victor Nell acknowledges this, but he does not explore the matter any further. I supplement his account by discussing how compassion, specifically in the moral education of children, can help remedy the problem of violence and cruelty in society.
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