The Way Philosophers Pray: Hymns as Experiential Knowledge in Early Modern Europe

• Marco Piana ^[1] ; Matteo Soranzo ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Toronto

     University of Toronto

     Canadá

     
  2. [2] McGill University

     McGill University

     Canadá

     
• Localización: Mediterranea.: International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, ISSN-e 2445-2378, Nº. 5, 2020, págs. 51-89
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Beginning with the work of Marsilio Ficino through the poems of Michele Marullo, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, Pierre Ronsard, Edmund Spenser and others, this essay discusses the revival and fortune of philosophical hymns in Quattrocento Italy and the diffusion of this genre in Early Modern Europe. In doing so, we will attempt at framing this phenomenon in the context of Early Modern religious pluralism and interpret it as an instance of experiential knowledge