Commentaries on Plato / Marsilio Ficino ; edited and translated by Michael J.B. Allen.

Commentaries on Plato / Marsilio Ficino ; edited and translated by Michael J.B. Allen.

Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran charioteer.

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)

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008-

English

Ficino's texts in Latin with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.

volumes <1-2 > ; 21 cm.

B395 .F4713 2008

184

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 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v.1-v.2

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 34, 51, 52.

Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Works. Selections. English. 2008.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Works. Selections. 2008.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum et commentarius in Phaedrum. English.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum et commentarius in Phaedrum. Latin.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum in Platonis Ionem de furore poetico. English.
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499. Argumentum in Platonis Ionem de furore poetico. Latin.

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