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Juan Manuel de Faramiñán Fernández-Fígares
Universidad de Granada
Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4360-5144
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Vol 41 No 1 (2022), Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/agora.41.1.7577
Submitted: 12-03-2021 Accepted: 06-09-2021 Published: 21-12-2021
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This article analyzes the symbolic presence of love, beauty and the 'eternal feminine' in the tragedy Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe through comparative hermeneutics with two fundamental texts of the Renaissance, The Heroic Enthusiasts by Giordano Bruno and the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Colonna. The starting thesis is that the three loves of Faust, Margarete, Helena and the Mater Gloriosa, are actually a symbolic representation of the three fundamental aspects of the soul (physical, psychological and spiritual) that can also be found in these two texts by its connection with the Neoplatonic tradition.