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Marsilio Ficino and Franciscus Patricius on Love

Ficino and Petrić on love In no other historical era has the love theme been given such prominence as in the period of the Renaissance. At the core of the renewed interest of the Reanaissance authors for love lies the introduction of Plato’s doctrine on love into the Western cultural circle, made known primarely through the translation of Marsilio Ficino and his commentary on Plato’s dialogue Symposium. With his views of love Ficino influenced all later philosophers who were dealing with the topics of love as well as the renound Renaissance Croatian philosopher Frane Petrić, who explicitly about love, wrights in his works Le rime di messer Luca Contile (1560), Il Delfino ovvero del baccio (1577), L'amorosa filosofia (1577) and in his most significant work Nova de universis philosophia (1591, 1593). The comparative analysis of the works on love of both Ficino and Petrić shows that Petrić, who wrights his treateses on love almost a century after Ficino, put forward some novel accents in the treatment of love (especially in L'amorosa philosophia), the accent being shifted towards the presentation of the concrete embodiment of beauty as love object in the form of an individual, more precisely, of a female person. Characteristic of Petrić’s approach are the most detailed descriptions of female physical beauty, though still within the frame of the Platonic understanding of the relationship between the spiritual and the physical—that is, physical beauty being primarily viewed as an image of spiritual beauty. reflecting the Renaissance view of man the microcosm as an image of the macrocosm. In this paper we are trying to show that despite these novel accents in Petrić's works on love, the main features of his and Ficino's conceptions of love are the same. The reason is that both philosophers encounter the same problems of principle nature - first of all, the problem of harmonisation of Neoplatonic with the Christian concept of love, but also with some of the open issues within Plato’s philosophy: with the question of the horizmos of Plato’s philosophy and the possibility of its being overcome. In this paper it is our aim to show that the basic structure of Ficino's and Petrić's solutions of these problems is the same. In their conceptions of love we find on the one hand the ontological hierarchy, on the other there is this circular structure with which the basic dynamics within the „principium omnium rerum“ has been expressed. So in the works of both philosophers we find the typical neoplatonic scheme –the dualism as the basic conception of being and of love on one side and on the other the tendency of the overcoming of this dualism through the graduation of beings. The central position of the love theme within Renaissance philosophy should be understood from the fact that the Renaissance Neoplatonism was an important segment of the Renaissance philosophy, and what essentially determines the Renaissance Neoplatonism is the syncretism which is witnessed mainly as a tendency towards that which unites. In accordance with this tendency, then the key position in the neoplatonically conceived ontological system is awarded to the „middle“, to the „in-between“, that unites the extremes. Such a mediating role is primarily entrusted to love.

us Patricius /Frane Petrić; Love; Renaissance Philosophy

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