341. True Romance: Theories of Love
Ficino describes a “Platonic” love purified of sexuality, prompting a debate carried on by Pico della Mirandola, Pietro Bembo, and Tullia d’Aragona.
• R.B. Gottfried (trans.), Pietro Bembo: Gli Asolani (Bloomington: 1954).
• S. Jayne (trans.), Pico della Mirandola: Commentary on a Canzone of Benivieni (New York: 1984).
• S. Jayne (trans.), Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on Plato’s Symposium (Columbia MO: 1944) (also see similar volume, Dallas 1985).
• R. Russell (trans.), Tullia d’Aragona: Dialogue on the Infinity of Love (Chicago: 1997).
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• M.J.B. Allen, Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran Charioteer (Berkeley: 1981).
• K.R. Bartlett and J. Liedl, Love and Death in the Renaissance (Ottawa: 1991).
• S. Ebbersmeyer, Sinnlichkeit und Vernunft Studien zur Rezeption und Transformation der Liebestheorie Platons in der Renaissance (München: 2002).
• K. Eisenbichler and O.Z. Pugliese (eds), Ficino and Renaissance Neoplatonism (Ottawa: 1986).
• S. Glanzmann, Der einsame Eros: eine Untersuchung des Symposion-Kommentars “De amore” von Marsilio Ficino (Tübingen: 2006).
• T.W. Reeser, Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance (Chicago: 2016).
• A. Wurm, Platonicus Amor: Lesarten der Leibe bei Platon, Plotin und Ficino (Berlin: 2008).
Episodes 328 - 370: Italian Renaissance
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Thought I was in for a very long episode
Long episode
Oh I see what you mean - I don't know why there is all that silence at the end. I'll see if I can fix this.
It actually isn't even…
It actually isn't even silence. The player doesn't play it. The moment it gets to that point it the bar grays out and the pause button becomes the restart button.
Not even silence
Maybe we should even just leave it like that as an applied experiment in negative theology?
Inconsisenty
For some reason I only see it on my laptop. On my phone it shows the correct time. This may be a problem on my end, or not. I don't really know.
gap
It seems like a gap has found it's way into this history of philosophy :)
Gap
Boom tish! Can't believe I didn't think of that one.
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