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In Echoes of an Invisible World Jacomien Prins offers an account of the transformation of the notion of Pythagorean world harmony during the Renaissance and the role of the Italian philosophers Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) and Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597) in redefining the relationship between cosmic order and music theory. By concentrating on Ficino’s and Patrizi’s work, the book chronicles the emergence of a new musical reality between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a reality in which beauty and the complementary idea of celestial harmony were gradually replaced by concepts of expressivity and emotion, that is to say, by a form of idealism that was ontologically more subjective than the original Pythagorean and Platonic metaphysics.
Price: $249.00
Pages: 464
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
Publication Date:
28 November 2014
ISBN: 9789004274372
Format: Hardcover
“Groundbreaking … major contribution to the field of Renaissance and early modern science”.
Penelope Gouk, University of Manchester. In: The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 49, No. 1 (March 2016), pp. 119-120.
Penelope Gouk, University of Manchester. In: The British Journal for the History of Science, Vol. 49, No. 1 (March 2016), pp. 119-120.
Jacomien Prins, Ph.D., University of Warwick, is a global research fellow at the IAS (Institute of Advanced Study) and CSR (Centre for the Study of the Renaissance) at that university. She has published many articles and a volume (Harmonious labyrinth) on the Pythagorean tradition of world harmony.