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The Paramaterial Phantasy

“Double bewitchment”: Love-Beams, the Mutual Gaze, and the Interpenetrating Visions of Marsilio Ficino’s De Amore

I have been arguing for a medieval and early modern paramaterial phantasy which paradoxically positioned the phantasy and its spirits somewhere between the material and the immaterial, and between the body and the soul. In this post, I want to explore Marsilio Ficino’s Neoplatonic construction of love in his De Amore (On Love) to further […]

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Posted in Early Modern Senses, Shaping Sense, Scholarship Tagged early modern senses, Marsilio Ficino, love beams, early modern, homoeroticism, imagination, De Amore, paramaterial, Love, Phantasy, theories of love, vision, history of vision

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