Risus coeli: una lectura de la Noche serena de fray Luis de León desde el neoplatonismo ficiniano de la luz

This work aims to study Fray Luis de León’s Noche serena, according to certain assumptions of Neoplatonic philosophy of light, developed by Marsilio Ficino. The study of works like De lumine or De raptu Pauli will allow us to connect Fray Luis's verses with central notions of such philosophical system. The study of the conception of light as a “bond of the universe”, the notion of “laugh of heaven”, based on the relationship between microcosms and makrantropos, as well as the notion of actus illuminantis will serve us to understand the luisian contemplation of the firmament offered in the ode, not as the result of a simple aesthetic emotion, but as a set of elements that, perfectly interlocked, respond to the luminous logic of Renaissance neoplatonism.