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Marsilio Ficino's De Stella magorum and Renaissance Views of the Magi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Stephen M. Buhler
Stephen M. Buhler*
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University of Nebraska, Lincoln
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References to the Magi whose veneration of the infant Christ is recorded in the second chapter of the gospel of Matthew are frequent in the writings of Marsilio Ficino, especially his letters. The clearest expressions of his interest and faith in the Magi can be found in the Apologia, accounting for the more magical elements in the De vita, and in a praedicatio on the topic of the star that guided the Wise Men.

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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , Summer 1990 , pp. 348 - 371
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1990

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