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The Inward Zodiac: A Development in Ficino's Thought on Astrology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Melissa Meriam Bullard
Melissa Meriam Bullard*
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University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
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Ever since Della Torre posited in 1902 that Ficino had undergone a religious crisis that led him to abandon the pagan beliefs of his youth and take holy orders, scholars have wrestled with how to explain the seeming inconsistencies in his thought. Though they downplayed Della Torre's notion of a specific crisis of faith, the next generation of scholars, including Thorndike, Sarton, Kristeller, Garin, Walker, and Yates, still labeled Ficino inconsistent, or at best, melancholic, wavering, and anxious.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 43 , Issue 4 , Winter 1990 , pp. 687 - 708
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1990

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An earlier version of this article was presented at the symposium on Renaissance Intellectual History held at The Humanities Center, John Hopkins University in 1987. I wish to thank the organizers of the symposium, Professors Nancy Struever and Salvatore I. Camporeale, for the invitiation to speak, and the other participants and especially Professor Charles Trinkaus, for their helpful discussion of my paper.

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