Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Texts xi
5. Illustrations xiii
6. FICINO IN SPAIN 1
7. Introduction: Ficino and the pia philosophia in Spain 3
8. 1. Ficino in Spanish Libraries 16
9. 2. Ficino as Authority in Sixteenth-Century Spanish Letters 50
10. 3. Ficino as Hermes Trismegistus: The Corpus Hermeticum or Pimander 109
11. 4. Persistence and Adaptation of Hermetic-Neoplatonic Imagery 142
12. 5. Ficino as Plato 165
13. 6. Persistence of Political-Economic Platonism 188
14. Conclusion 214
15. Notes 221
16. Works Cited 313
17. Index 347