Ficino, Pico, and Savonarola
Subtitle: the evolution of humanist theology 1461/2-1498
By: by Amos Edelheit.
Series: The medieval Mediterranean -- v. 78
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9789004166677
Subjects: Ficino, Marsilio, -- 1433-1499; Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, -- 1463-1494; Savonarola, Girolamo, -- 1452-1498; Christianity and religious humanism; Humanism -- Italy -- Florence -- History; Philosophical anthropology; Theological anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Giovanni Caroli, the conduit of the sense of spiritual and political crisis in Florence; title: Introduction; title: Giovanni Caroli and his times; title: Liber dierum lucensium : Prooemium and book one; title: Liber dierum lucensium,  book two; title: Liber dierum lucensium,  book three; title: Humanist theology in practice; title: The historical context; title: Declamationum liber; title: The Turkish danger and its religious connotations; title: Classical, biblical, and patristic allusions : the disappearance of the doctors; title: The attitude to rhetoric; title: Ficino's praedicationes; title: Poliziano's sermons; title: Rinuccini's sermons; title: Nesi's sermons; title: Other sermons; title: Marsilio Ficino and the conditio religionis : quandiu duram et miserabilem hanc ferrei seculi; title: Sortem sustinebimus; title: Some general introductory remarks; title: De christiana religione : the "manifesto" of the new humanist theology; title: Prisca religio and its divine inspiration : religion as the characteristic of man; title: Praeparatio evangelica; title: The incarnation as an intervention of the eternal in the temporal; title: The teachings of Christ; title: The apostles and the propagation of Christianity; title: The decline of the Christian world and Ficino's proposals for renewal; title: Giovanni Pico della mirandola and his theological method : between Opinio and Ides; title: The theological crisis; title: Quia errare in opinione thomae, non est errare in de-the dispute in Rome 1486 and the Apiologia; title: Pico's attitude to philosophy : between academic skepticism and religious certainty; title: The Savonarola a'air-the government of God as republican practice; title: The Savonarola a'air : a case-study in the history and in the historiography of the Renaissance; title: Savonarola : an anti-humanist or a pro-humanist?; title: Savonarola and politics; title: The notion of reform : the transition from theology to politics spiritual and political vision : the preaching prophet and his slogan.