Carol V. Kaske examines how the form, no less than the theology, of Spenser's writings reveals the influence of the Bible and medieval and Renaissance Biblical hermeneutics. Her approach partakes of both the old historicism and the new. Spenser and Biblical Poetics is the first comprehensive account of the contradictions and inconsistencies in Spenser's imagery--particularly in The Faerie Queene. These and his well-known contradictions in doctrine Kaske accepts and celebrates. She shows that Spenser challenges the reader with problems arising from his endorsement of both Protestant and Catholic traditions. She connects Spenser's contradictory style not only with such religious topics (for example, adiaphorism) but also with secular ones such as colonialism, the conflict between nature and culture, and the policies of the Queen. Spenser and Biblical Poetics makes an indispensable contribution to the history of reading in the Renaissance.

Spenser and Biblical Poetics

Literature & Fiction

Kaske, Carol V.

History & Criticism

Cornell University Press

<p>Text: English, Italian (translation)</p>

Three Books on Life (MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEXTS AND STUDIES) (English and Italian Edition)

Ficino, Marsilio

Clark, John R.

Medical Books

Mrts

<p>Taking a course on astrological magic and this text was recommended to be picked up for a better understanding. The translation is great and the notes on various portions of the translation has really helped with my understanding of how the cosmic order works. Highly recommend this to other students of astrology, not just for those that are interested in the magic side of it. ( on line review) Ficino, famous in his day and in histories of philosophy as the pioneering translator of Plato and the Neo-Platonists (a distinction made long after his time), was the son of a physician, which in those days meant an astrologer. He was trained in his father's profession, but also as a priest, and read the Aristotle of the late Scholastics as well as Plato and his followers, and his supposed source, the books attributed to the Egyptian sage, Hermes Trismegistus. Bits and pieces of all of these interests, and others, appear in the "Books on Life," which are in large measure an attempt to avoid the negative implications of Ficino's own horoscope, which was dominated by the influence of Saturn, seeming to doom him to lethargy and sickness.</p>

Marsilio Ficino, Three Books on Life: A Critical Edition and Translation (Volume 57) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)

History

Europe

ACMRS Press

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