Religione naturale e salvezza universale. Appunti sulla fortuna di Ficino e una nota su Agrippa e Camillo Renato

This essay analyzes some aspects of the multi-faceted European reception of the notion of religio naturalis, developed by Marsilio Ficino in the 'De Christiana religione', in the 'Theologia Platonica', in his letters and in his commentaries on Plato. In addition it aims to clarify the ways in which Francesco Zorzi, Celio Secondo Curione, Francesco Pucci, Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, and Sebastian Franck re-adapted this notion to the context of the sixteenth-century religious debate. The analysis of the (mis)fortunes of 'religio naturalis' also sheds light on Ficino’s own texts, discovering previously unsuspected potentialities. The final part of the essay shows the influence of a chapter of Cornelius Agrippa’s 'De occulta philosophia', partly dependant on Ficino’s texts, on Camillo Renato’s doctrine of the deferred beatific vision.