Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 110
... Ficino avoided the idolatry inherent in Hermes ' state- ment . Demons and genii , like angels , were world spirit , but they were personalized world spirit , and because they were personalized , they were thought to have soul . Ficino ...
... Ficino avoided the idolatry inherent in Hermes ' state- ment . Demons and genii , like angels , were world spirit , but they were personalized world spirit , and because they were personalized , they were thought to have soul . Ficino ...
Page 143
... Ficino said that " song and sound ... together with the air they have broken up and tempered ... strike the aerial spirit of the hearer , " he incorporated an Aristotelian idea , but he gave added importance to the effect of the air ...
... Ficino said that " song and sound ... together with the air they have broken up and tempered ... strike the aerial spirit of the hearer , " he incorporated an Aristotelian idea , but he gave added importance to the effect of the air ...
Page 258
... Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Symposium , Third Speech , chap . I , and First Speech , chap III , pp . 148 , 128. Ficino's Commentarium in Convivium Platonis de amore first appeared in his translation of the works of Plato , the ...
... Ficino's Commentary on Plato's Symposium , Third Speech , chap . I , and First Speech , chap III , pp . 148 , 128. Ficino's Commentarium in Convivium Platonis de amore first appeared in his translation of the works of Plato , the ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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