Marsilio Ficino De vita coelitus comparandája és a Picatrix
Marsilio Ficino’s De vita coelitus comparanda and The Picatrix

Summary/Abstract: Previous research (by Eugenio Garin and Vittoria Perrone Compagni) claimed that Picatrix played an important role as a source or inspiration for the third book of Ficino’s On Life both in practical-magical and doctrinal matters, for example when discussing the universal spirit. This paper proves the opposite. It shows the single case where Ficino really cites Picatrix, and shortly describes this medieval magic textbook, making clear the distance that divides it from Ficino’s philosophical approach. For Hungarian readers the author provides the Picatrix’s summary in the Workshop section, and in the next issue a translation based on the Latin text of the fourth book’s first treatise, which discusses a philosophical topic.

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