Ioan Peter Couliano, 1950-1991


Biography

Couliano was a fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and professor in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. His untimely death is a great loss to scholarship.

Annotated Bibliography

Eros et magie a la Renaissance, 1484; avec une preface de Mircea Eliade. Paris: Flammarion, 1984.
In English:
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance; transl. by Margaret Cook. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Stunningly brilliant synthesis of Ficino studies, including Ficino's sources, his cosmology, and his tradition.

Revd by Ralph H Abraham, 22 Nov 2000