The Book of Life"The first translation ever into English of this underground classic of the Italian Renaissance. Marsilio Ficino's Book of life was once supressed for Ficino's approach to images, daemons, and planets in relation to health. The book in this fluent, amusing and exact translation by Charles Boer is a guide to food, drink, sleep, mood, sexuality, song and countless herbal and vegetable concoctions for maintaining the balance of soul, body and spirit. A fouding text of archetypal psychology, it has long been an important source for image-oriented thought. |
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Dedicatory Letter to Lorenzo Medici | 1 |
Dedicatory Letter to Filippo Valori | 37 |
Dedicatory Letter to the King of Hungary | 83 |
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