Commentaries on Plato, Volume 1: Phaedrus and Ion (I Tatti Renaissance Library) by Marsilio Ficino

Commentaries on Plato, Volume 1: Phaedrus and Ion (I Tatti Renaissance Library)



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Commentaries on Plato, Volume 1: Phaedrus and Ion (I Tatti Renaissance Library) Marsilio Ficino
Page: 336
ISBN: 9780674031197
Publisher: Harvard University Press

Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. The publication of his Latin translations of the dialogues in 1484 was an intellectual event of the first magnitude, making the Platonic canon accessible to western Europe after the passing of a millennium and establishing Plato as an authority for Renaissance thought. This volume contains Ficino’s extended analysis and commentary on the Phaedrus, which he explicates as a meditation on “beauty in all its forms” and a sublime work of theology. In the commentary on the Ion, Ficino explores a poetics of divine inspiration that leads to the Neoplatonist ... MORE EBOOKS:







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