In Focus
Conversazioni Serlupiane I
The exhibited works
Anima, Mondo, Libro: Ficino
The KHI presents a selection of incunabula and documents of the 15th-century Florentine philosopher and physician Marsilio Ficino from the Biblioteca Serlupiana, an extraordinary collection of ancient books donated to the Institute.
Hermes Trismegistus, De potestate et sapientia Dei, Tr. Marsilius Ficinus, Treviso: Gerardus de Lisa, de Flandria, 18 Dec. 1471.
Marsilius Ficinus, Consiglio contro la pestilenza, Florence: Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli, post 1481
Jamblichus, De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum, Tr. Marsilius Ficinus, Add. Proclus, In Platonicum Alcibiadem; De sacrificio et magia; Porphyrius, De divinis et daemonibus; Synesius, De somniis; Psellus, De daemonibus; Priscianus & Marsilius Ficinus, In Theophrastum De sensu; Alcinous, De doctrina Platonis; Speusippus, De Platonis definitionibus; Pythagoras, Aurea verba et symbola; Xenocrates, De morte; Marsilius Ficinus, De voluptate, Venice: Aldus Manutius, Romanus, Sept. 1497
Marsilius Ficinus, De christiana religione, Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii Alamanus, between 10 Nov. and 10 Dec. 1476.
Marsilius Ficinus, De vita libri tres (De triplici vita), Add. Apologia; Quod necessaria sit ad vitam securitas, With poem by Amerigus Corsinus, Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 3 Dec. 1489.
Plato, Opera, Tr. Marsilius Ficinus, Florence: Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus, 1484–85.
Plotinus, Opera, Tr. & Comm. Marsilius Ficinus, Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 7 May 1492.
Dante Alighieri, La Commedia, Comm. Christophorus Landinus, Add. Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio, Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii Alamanus, 30 Aug. 1481.
Marsilius Ficinus, De christiana religione, Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii Alamanus, 1474 or early 1475.
Marsilius Ficinus, Commentaria V perpetua in Platonem, Florence: Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus, 2 Dec. 1496.
Marsilius Ficinus, Commentarium in Convivium Platonis De Amore (manuscript on paper, 15th century).
Marsilius Ficinus, Argumentum librum Mercurii Trismegisti ad Cosmum Medicem (illuminated manuscript on parchment, Bruges, 1475).
Marsilius Ficinus, Letter to Michele Mercati of San Miniato, Florence, 1 Apr. 1446. Published by P. O. Kristeller in Supplementum Ficinianum, II, 88.
For further information please contact:
camilla.musci@khi.fi.it
Photographs: Bärbel Reinhard (Fondazione Studio Marangoni)
Concept and coordination: Library
