Studies in the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico by Allen MichaelJ. B.;

Author:Allen, MichaelJ. B.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

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Notes

1

For details see Eugenio Garin, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Vita e dottrina (Florence: Le Monnier, 1937), 25–6.

2

See the detailed entry by Cesare Vasoli in the Dizionario biografico degli Italiani (Rome: Enciclopedia Italiana, 1966), 8:550–5; see also Olga Zorzi Pugliese, “Girolamo Benivieni: Umanista riformatore (dalla corrispondenza inedita),” La bibliofilia 72 (1970): 253–88.

3

See Olga Zorzi Pugliese, “Variations on Ficino’s De amore. The Hymns to Love by Benivieni and Castiglione,” in Ficino and Renaissance Neoplatonism, ed. Konrad Eisenbichler and Olga Zorzi Pugliese (Ottowa: Dovehouse Editions, 1986), 113–21.

4

See Massimo Ciavolella, “Eros/Ereos: Marsilio Ficino’s Interpretation of Guido Cavalcanti’s ‘Donna me prega,’” in Ficino and Renaissance Neoplatonism, 39–48.

5

See Eugenio Garin, “Marsilio Ficino, Gioralamo Benivieni, e Giovanni Pico,” Giornale critico della filosofia italiana 23, nos. 1–2 (1942): 93–9.

6

This is now in Ficino’s Opera omnia (Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1576), 888–9, in his eighth book of Letters. This edition has been reproduced in modern times, most recently by Phénix Editions, Paris, 1999. See, too, Ficino’s letter to Salviati and Benivieni in praise of Pico as Count of Concordia and as the child of the Graces possessed of wisdom, eloquence, and virtue (ibid., 890).

7

Ibid., 889.

8

Ibid, 98.

9

Edited by Paul O. Kristeller in his Supplementum Ficinianum, 2 vols. (Florence: Olschki, 1937), 2:91–3. The letter is dated March 23, 1494, Fiorentine style.

10

See Olga Zorzi Pugliese, “Benivieni’s Commento and Bonaventure’s Itinerarium: Autobiography and Ideology,” Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa 30 ( 1994): 347–62.

11

It does not appear, incidentally, in the Venice 1557 edition.

12

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, De hominis dignitate, Heptaplus, De ente et uno, e scritti van, ed. Eugenio Garin (Florence: Vallecchi, 1942); the Commento appears on pp. 459–81, with Benivieni’s canzona preceding it on pp. 451–8.1 shall also refer to the translation of the Commento usefully introduced and annotated by Sears Jayne as Commentary on a Canzone of Benivieni by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (New York: Peter Lang, 1984). Sears Jayne used Garin’s text but consulted two other (derivative) MSS – N.A. 1217 in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence and C. VI. 16 in the Biblioteca Communale in Siena – and some of the readings of the various editions (see his stemma, 263–5). Of the surviving MSS, none is a Pico autograph. Another good English translation, by Stephen Salchenberger, was done as a Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. dissertation (1967).

13

Phaedrus 244A–245C, the locus classicus.

14

Ficino, Opera omnia, 918.3.

15

Commento, 556; Commentary, 149; henceforth formatted as (556 [149]). In his translation, Sears Jayne introduced his own chapter numbering (with a persuasive justification), but, for convenience’s sake, I have stayed with Garin’s numbering. In 233 n. 45, he notes that Marsilio’s name is omitted here in most MSS.

16

Edgar Wind, Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, rev. ed. (New York: Norton, 1968), 157, citing Lorenzo de’ Medici, Opere, ed. Attilio Simioni (Bari: Laterza, 1939), 1:24ff. See also my Synoptic Art: Marsilio Ficino on the History of Platonic Interpretation (Florence: Olschki, 1998), 120–2.

17

Wind, Pagan Mysteries, 173–5.

18

Commento particulare (555 [148]).

19

In general, see Nicholas J. Perella, The Kiss Sacred and Profane (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969).

20

Commento particulare (557 [150]): “la prima morte.

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