Echoes of an Invisible World: Marsilio Ficino and Francesco Patrizi on Cosmic Order and Music Theory (Brill's Studies in Itellectual History, 234) - Hardcover

Prins, Jacomien

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004274375 ISBN 13: 9789004274372

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2014

Synopsis

In Echoes of an Invisible World Jacomien Prins offers an account of the transformation of the notion of Pythagorean world harmony during the Renaissance and the role of the Italian philosophers Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) and Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) in redefining the relationship between cosmic order and music theory. By concentrating on Ficino's and Patrizi's work, the book chronicles the emergence of a new musical reality between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a reality in which beauty and the complementary idea of celestial harmony were gradually replaced by concepts of expressivity and emotion, that is to say, by a form of idealism that was ontologically more subjective than the original Pythagorean and Platonic metaphysics.

About this title

About the Author:

Jacomien Prins, Ph.D., University of Warwick, is a global research fellow at the IAS (Institute of Advanced Study) and CSR (Centre for the Study of the Renaissance) at that university. She has published many articles and a volume (Harmonious labyrinth) on the Pythagorean tradition of world harmony.

Review:

"Groundbreaking ... major contribution to the field of Renaissance and early modern science".
Penelope Gouk, University of Manchester. In: The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 49, No. 1 (March 2016), pp. 119-120.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9004274375
• ISBN 13: 9789004274372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 461