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30 juin 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.septentrion.5953
- isbn: 9782757406854
- eisbn: 9782757414224
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Knowledge--Philosophy Poems Worth Axiology Hours (Time) Revival of letters Renaissance--Europe Renaissance--History Poetry--Philosophy Poems Verses (Poetry) Mental philosophy Expulsion Anathema Expulsion Expulsion Deportation--Law and legislationCiter ce document
Michael J. B. Allen, « Plato’s Gorgias, Ficino and the Poets », Presses universitaires du Septentrion, ID : 10.4000/books.septentrion.5953
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The ideas of the great Florentine Neoplatonist, Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), as a commentator on poetry and the role of poets are worth revisiting, given Plato’s expulsion in the Republic of the poets from the ideal body politic, and given for Ficino the prominence of Vergil and of Dante in the poetic firmament. For they had the status of being “divine poets”, though they had not been born obviously at the time of Plato’s attack, and therefore would seem to have escaped, in part at least, the...