Marko Ursic: Four Seasons, philosophical dialogues and monologues – tetralogy. Cankarjeva zalozba, Ljubljana.

Motto of the tetralogy: "Four seasons are given to a man: the past, the present, the future, and the eternity."

II. Volume: Summer, 1st part: On the Renaissance Beauty, 330 pages, 2004. Here are three fragments.

Key words and names: the Renaissance, Florence, Platonism, Hermetism, Ficino, Pico, Savonarola; aesthetics, symbolic forms, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Leonardo, Gombrich, Didi-Huberman, Gage, Garin.

The book is woven as a net of dialogues, monologues, philosophical essays, prose, dreams, travel notes... which are composed into a fugue of four voices:

1.      philosophy (mainly the Renaissance Neo-Platonism is presented and discussed)

2.      theory of symbolic forms (colour symbolism, geometry and harmony, mythological figures etc.)

3.      fragments of a biography (seven pictures from the life of Sandro Botticelli)

4.      travel diary of two main persons (Mary and Bruno) from Florence.