Voluptas Urania. Marsilio Ficino as a Neoplatonic and Christian Exegete of Guido Cavalcanti’s Natural Philosophy of Love

https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i49.7947

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Published: Jul 15, 2019
Issue: No. 49 (2019): Núm. 49 (2019): Praxis Filosófica No. 49 julio-diciembre 2019
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  Fabián Ludueña Romandini Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Abstract

The following article presents a study of Marsilio Ficino’s interpretation of the poem Donna me prega by Guido Cavalcanti. Through the examination of the ficinian exegesis, the text shows that, despite the presence of formal equivalent themes in both philosophers, Ficino’s analysis is based upon a theoretical breaking with Cavalcanti’s averroism. At the same time, Ficino produces a deep transformation of Cavalcanti’s philosophy of love in shifting its background from the heterosexual perspective of the dolce stil nuovo towards the platonic symposium of homoerotic ascendance. This movement goes side by side with an allegorical exegesis that Ficino proposes by means of references rooted in neoplatonism, Christian theology and natural magic. Regarding this last aspect, the figure of Zoroaster takes a fundamental prominence as a priscus theologus and guarantee of Ficino’s astral magic of love.

Keywords
  • Exegesis
  • spiritus
  • philosophy of love
  • averroism
  • natural magic
Author Biography

Fabián Ludueña Romandini, Universidad Argentina de la Empresa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

PhD and master in philosophy from the École des Hautes Études in Social Sciences in Paris, France. He is a researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet) of Argentina and the "Gino Germani" Research Institute of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. He is a tenured tenured professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE). His latest book is titled Arcana Imperii. Metaphysical-political treatise (2018). His areas of study concern, especially, medieval and Renaissance metaphysics, political philosophy, the history of Roman law and the history of Christian theology.

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Ludueña Romandini, F. (2019). Voluptas Urania. Marsilio Ficino as a Neoplatonic and Christian Exegete of Guido Cavalcanti’s Natural Philosophy of Love. Praxis Filosófica, (49), 61–86. https://doi.org/10.25100/pfilosofica.v0i49.7947
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Received 2019-05-29
Accepted 2019-05-29
Published 2019-07-15

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