Ficino in confessione. Riflessioni sulla virtù del segno musicale

Starting with Daniel P. Walker, a dense historiography has examined the shades and hues of Ficino's music-spirit theory. Situated along the blurred border between the natural and the diabolical, the astrological song caused division among the protagonists of the late Renaissance theology. Ficinian echoes are also found in penitential casuistry, a hitherto ignored witness to that debate, which raised questions on the origin and implications of the virtues of the musical signs.