Naslov
Patrizi's Influence on Romei's Reflection on Beauty and Love

Autori
Metesi Deronjić, Željka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
Francesco Patrizi: Philosopher of the Renaissance / Nejeschleba, Tomaš - Olomouc : Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2014, 27-28

ISBN
978-80-244-4075-0

Skup
Francesco Patrizi: Philosopher of the Renaissance

Mjesto i datum
Olomouc, Češka Republika, 24.04.2014. - 26.04.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Petrić; Romei; Beauty; Love; Renaissance Platonism

Sažetak
Frane Petrić and Annibale Romei gave their contribution to numerous Renaissance tractates on beauty and love. Petrić expressed his attitudes on beauty and love in an unfinished work in four dialogues L’amorosa filosofia (1577) and in the dialogue Il Delfino, overo del bacio (1577). Although his central topic was neither love nor beauty, but the process of poetic creation itself, Petrić wrote about the mentioned topics in a more concise form in his noted commentary of Luce Contile’s love rhymes from 1560. Annibale Romei (1520–1590), a chess player and an Italian writer, published his Discorsi del conte Annibale Romei gentil’huomo ferrarese divisi in sette giornate. The said work consists of seven pieces of writing, or conversations, divided into seven days during which many renowned ladies and thinkers of the then cultural life in Italy, including the author himself, expressed their attitudes. The paper analyzes the first two pieces of writing: Discorso della bellezza and Discorso dell’amor humano. Petrić, commended as an excellent connoisseur of issues regarding beauty and love, was invited in the first conversation to start speaking about beauty and in the second writing this honor was bestowed upon Guirino who directly drew on and elaborated Petrić’s teaching. Beauty and love are treated within a framework of key platonic and neoplatonic thought segments. Besides the elements of Plato’s philosophy, presented first of all in his Symposium and Phaedrus, and afterwards in the Republic and Timaeus, Romei’s work shows a considerable influence by the Hermetic writings and Ficino, mostly in the interpretation that man receives the ray of light from God, and thus rises towards understanding the highest causes, then in the comparison of the transcendent source with the constructor, and in the end, in the interpretation of the role of material beauty in the world, a »large machine« full of beauty by means of which we can conceive things. Besides the mentioned, which should certainly be accompanied with the idea of the soul of the world and the concept of man as a place for gaining a higher and a lower world, these pieces of writing clearly point out to the distinction between the sensory world, perceived through experience, and the intelligible world, perceived by the mind. The mentioned thought characteristics of Romei’s tractate also represent a significant link between Petrić’s and Romei’s philosophical thought. This is also borne out by their neoplatonic differentiation between two interconnected spheres or, analogously, the differentiation between the spiritual and the sensory beauty, with its source in the religion of the extrasensory, but also the view according to which love connects us with intelligible beauty. By observing and admiring the beauty of the human body, the soul of the lover rises in the contemplation of true beauty.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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