Commentaries on Plato / Marsilio Ficino ; edited and translated by Michael J.B. Allen.
2008
B395 .F4713 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Commentaries on Plato / Marsilio Ficino ; edited and translated by Michael J.B. Allen.
Author
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
Uniform Title
Selections. English & Latin. 2008
Alternate Title
Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran charioteer.
ISBN
9780674031197 (v. 1: alk. paper)
0674031199 (v. 1: alk. paper)
9780674064713 (v. 2, pt. 1 : alk. paper)
0674064712 (v. 2, pt. 1 : alk. paper)
9780674064720 (v. 2, pt. 2 : alk. paper)
0674064720 (v. 2, pt. 2 : alk. paper)
0674031199 (v. 1: alk. paper)
9780674064713 (v. 2, pt. 1 : alk. paper)
0674064712 (v. 2, pt. 1 : alk. paper)
9780674064720 (v. 2, pt. 2 : alk. paper)
0674064720 (v. 2, pt. 2 : alk. paper)
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008-
Language
English
Language Note
Ficino's texts in Latin with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
Description
v. <1-2 > ; 21 cm.
Call Number
B395 .F4713 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
184
Summary
Volume 1 contains analysis and commentary on the 'Phaedrus', which is explicated as a meditation on 'beauty in all its forms' and a work of theology. The commentary on the 'Ion' explores a poetics of divine inspiration that leads to the Neoplatonist portrayal of the soul as a rhapsode whose song is an ascent into the mind of God.
Note
Volume 1 is a revised edition of Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran charioteer (1981), also edited by Michael J.B. Allen.
Volume 1 contains analysis and commentary on the 'Phaedrus', which is explicated as a meditation on 'beauty in all its forms' and a work of theology. The commentary on the 'Ion' explores a poetics of divine inspiration that leads to the Neoplatonist portrayal of the soul as a rhapsode whose song is an ascent into the mind of God.
Volume 1 contains analysis and commentary on the 'Phaedrus', which is explicated as a meditation on 'beauty in all its forms' and a work of theology. The commentary on the 'Ion' explores a poetics of divine inspiration that leads to the Neoplatonist portrayal of the soul as a rhapsode whose song is an ascent into the mind of God.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Allen, Michael J. B.
Plato. Phaedrus.
Plato. Ion.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum et commentarius in Phaedrum. English & Latin.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum in Platonis Ionem de furore poetico. English & Latin.
Plato. Phaedrus.
Plato. Ion.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum et commentarius in Phaedrum. English & Latin.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum in Platonis Ionem de furore poetico. English & Latin.
Holdings
v.1-v.2
Series
I Tatti Renaissance library ; 34, 51, 52.
Includes
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum et commentarius in Phaedrum. English & Latin.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum in Platonis Ionem de furore poetico. English & Latin.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum in Platonis Ionem de furore poetico. English & Latin.
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Table of Contents
V. 1. Phaedrus and Ion / edited and translated by Michael J.B. Allen
v. 2 (in 2 parts). Parmenides / edited and translated by Maude Vanhaelen.
v. 2 (in 2 parts). Parmenides / edited and translated by Maude Vanhaelen.