Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo, Baldassare Castiglione: Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Political Approaches in Renaissance Platonism.(Review)

Renaissance Quarterly | June 22, 1999| | Copyright

Christine Raffini, (Renaissance and Baroque: Studies and Texts, 21.) New York and Washington, D.C.: Peter Lang, 1998. xii + 174 pp. $41.95. ISBN: 0-8204-3023-4.

These two books present examinations of two different facets of Renaissance philosophical speculation, the Platonic and the Aristotelian. Raffini offers a study of Marsilio Ficino's use of the Platonic heritage and its Nachleben as manifested in the work of Pietro Bembo and Baldassare Castiglione. The author contends that (1): "Taken together, the writings of Marsilio Ficino, Pietro Bembo and Baldassare ...

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