No. 4 (2023): Una / Κοινῇ - Rivista di studi sul classico e sulla sua ricezione nella letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea
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Love and Beauty in Laurentian Florence

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  • Paolo Orvieto
Published December 15, 2023
Keywords
  • beauty, love, Neoplatonism
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Orvieto , P. (2023). Love and Beauty in Laurentian Florence. Una Κοινῇ - Magazine of Studies on the Classic and Its Reception in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature, (4), 71-97. Retrieved from https://unakoine.it/index.php/unaK/article/view/123

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Abstract

Above all, the Neoplatonic (Ficinian) conception of beauty is analysed, especially in Ficino’s El libro dell’amore and in his other works. It is an epistemological process that starts from sensitive beauties, to move on to the internal ones of imagination and fantasy, to arrive at the supreme idea of beauty of God, which is then what generates love, which is the desire for beauty. Ficino’s philosophy on love and beauty will be poetically reproposed by Lorenzo de’ Medici in some of his most beautiful poems, analysed here also with the author’s own commentary.

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