Publisher's Synopsis
"The first translation ever into English of Marsilio Ficino's Liber de vita, the underground classic of the Italian Renaissance-long suppressed because of its approach to images, demons, and planets in relation to mental health. Ficino told the politicians, thinkers, businessmen and artists of the Italian Renaissance the secrets of food, the pleasures in life, the antidotes to depression, and a lot of other things that had been lost for centuries. A founding text of archetypal psychology, it has long been an important source for image-oriented thought"--.
