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John Colet and the Platonic Tradition

By: Leland Miles | Book details

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CHAPTER 2
COLET ON GOD AND CREATION

This chapter will show that the chief source of Colet Letters to Radulphus on the Mosaic Account of Creation is St. Augustine, both directly and in some instances through the medium of Ficino. It is therefore not surprising that Colet, in his treatment of the Platonic and Plotinian outlooks on God and creation, should have followed Augustine's Clementine approach.1

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For Augustinianism in Ficino, see Kristeller "Augustine and the Early Renaissance," Review of Religion 7 (May 44), 339-358; Philosophy of Ficino, p. 211; and The Classics and Renaissance Thought, p. 85. Also Cassirer, "Ficino's Place in Intellectual History," JHI, 6:487. As Colet's debts to Augustine Confessions 11-13, Lupton cites: (1) the assertion that Genesis is obscure; (2) the metaphor "water" for matter; (3) the notion that the opening Mosaic verses are an epitome of the whole creation afterwards re

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