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Montaigne Used Pyrrhonian Scepticism To Undermine Ficino’s Doctrine Of Melancholic Inspiration
The doctrine of melancholic inspiration was introduced by Marsilio Ficino into the court of Cosimo de’ Medici. However, Montaigne used the scepticism of Pyrrho to undermine the Ficinian doctrine… Continue reading
Ficino’s Theory of Love in The Pheonix & the Turtle
In his Commentary on Plato’s Symposium, Ficino had written on the effect of love, about a century before Shakespeare wrote about it in The Phoenix and the Turtle Continue reading
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