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The smell of God: scent trails from Ficino to Baudelaire [PDF]

, 2003
God has a smell. Or rather, our sense of smell can bring us to a deeper knowledge of God. This is one aspect of a theory which runs through much of European history from the Renaissance onwards, with fluctuating intensity and with fundamental variations.
Wourm, Nathalie
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The Harmonious Soul and the Defence of Music in Sixteenth‐Century England

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 201-215, April 2025.
Abstract This article examines the history of the concept of the soul as a harmony—as opposed to merely being like a harmony—in sixteenth‐century England, demonstrating how debates over music's morality in sixteenth‐century England were a catalyst for theorising an increasing affinity between music and the soul.
Katherine Butler
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Der Seelenwagen als quadriga rationalis bei Marsilio Ficino [PDF]

, 2018
Der Beitrag wendet sich dem Konzept des Seelenwagens bei Ficino zu. Auf der Grundlage einer Darstellung der Lehre vom ochema in der Entwicklung von Platon bis Proklos werden differenziert die Bedeutungen interpretiert, die diese Metapher im Werk Ficinos ...
Leinkauf, Thomas
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Chronotopes of exile and loss in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's Zoilomastix (c. 1626)☆

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 60-80, February 2025.
Abstract This essay explores the relationship between an early modern exile and his native environment, as depicted in Philip O'Sullivan Beare's unfinished natural history Zoilomastix. Writing by turns in Latin, Spanish and Gaelic from the safety of the Habsburg court, O'Sullivan Beare marshalled Ciceronian rhetoric and Plinian wonder to argue for the ...
Kevin Gerard Tracey
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Hermetic Roots of Marsilio Ficino’s Anthropocentric Thought [PDF]

J@rgonia, 2013
Marsilio Ficino’s relationship to the Hermetic literary tradition has long been a controversial issue in academic discussion. Although Ficino is commonly known as a translator and keen reader of the philosophical Hermetica, his allegiances to the ...
Lauri Ockenström
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Representações do belo no Quattrocento florentino: Leon Battista Alberti e Marsilio Ficino

Viso, 2009
O ensaio analisa duas representações do belo do Renascimento Florentino, aquelas do humanista Leon Battista Alberti e do filósofo neoplatônico Marsilio Ficino.
Felipe Charbel Teixeira
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LANGUAGE—HISTORY—PRESENCE

History and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 366-383, September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article deals with the use of language in historiography and with this usage's implications for the conception of history and the historiographical operation/practice. Whereas theorists of “presence” believe that “presence” and “reality” can be grasped in spoken language and written texts, thus generally considering them as a medium that ...
LUIGI ALONZI
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Musicianship and the masteries of the stars: music and musicians in the Liber Nativitatum

Renaissance Studies, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 494-518, September 2024.
Abstract This article shines a light on the musical contents of a “book of births”, the Liber Nativitatum or Albubather, written by the Persian Astrologer Abu Bakr al‐Hassan ibn al‐Khasib in the ninth century, translated into Latin at the beginning of the thirteenth century, and published in Venice in 1501.
Oliver Doyle
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Ficino východní: zkušenost interpretace teologie a světelné metafyziky Marsilia Ficina

Filosofický časopis, 2023
This article contains an analysis of the influence of the Corpus Areopagiticum on the thought of the Renaissance Platonist Marsilio Ficino, in the process of which the author thematizes especially Dionysius’ differentiation of two aspects of the Divine ...
Ivančenko, Georgij
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Ideias para uma termodinâmica noética e uma noética ígnea

Voluntas, 2021
O ensaio desenvolve o problema cosmológico da relação entre metafísica e termodinâmica, pensamento e ambiente, espírito e calor, com foco nos conceitos filosófico- científicos de sistema (Serres, Bateson) e entropia (Prigogine & Stengers, Georgescu ...
Marco Antonio Valentim
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