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Milton's Neo-Platonic angel?
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Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
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January 1, 2004| Author:
Daniel, Clay
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Milton's Raphael and Adam participate in "a dialogue of love whose generic models are Plato's Symposium and several Neoplatonic versions and imitations of it--by [Marsilio] Ficino, Leone Ebreo, and especially [Baldassare] Castiglione." Readers generally agree that "Raphael is the strict Neoplatonist (like [Cardinal Pietro] Bembo in [Castiglione's] The [Book of the] Courtier)." (1) The Neo-Platonic angel, alarmed when Adam extols Eve's flesh, (over-)administers Neo-Platonic correcti...
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; ... nevertheless not quite a traveler's tall tale. Clay Daniel, Milton's Neo-Platonic Angel? Readers generally agree that Raphael administers--probably inappropriately--Neo-Platonic correction to Adam when the man extols Eve's beauty ... of Eve's soul within the context of his ...
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