Dusseldorf/Chapters/8-ficino.rtf, cr 26 nov 2004

8. Ficino, 1400 CE

Ficino's originality derived from the thorougoing syncretism of pagan and Christian elements he effected under the impulse of Plato, Plotinus, Proclus, the Hermetica , the Areopagite, Augustine, and Aquinas, to name only his primary wells of inspiration. (Allen, 1981; p. xi)

Among the facets of this syncretism: 
	* orphic music, music therapy (Ficino's personal practice)
	* astrology (astrological psychology)
	* magic, psychology 

The long line of astrological magic: 
Synesius, Proclus, Macrobius, al Kindi, Ficino, Bruno, Agrippa 

Refs

Allen, Don Cameron. The Star-crossed Renaissance: the Quarrel about Astrology and its Influence in England. xxx, 1941.

Allen, Michael jJ. B., Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran Charioteer, xxx, 1981.

Moore, Thomas, The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino. xxx, xxx