Commentaries on Plato / Marsilio Ficino ; edited and translated 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 sou...
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| Other title: | Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran charioteer. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Latin |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2008-2012.
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| Series: | I Tatti Renaissance library ;
34. I Tatti Renaissance library ; 51. I Tatti Renaissance library ; 52. |
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Volume 1 is a revised edition of Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran charioteer (1981), also edited by Michael J.B. Allen. |
| Physical Description: | 2 volumes ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674031197 (v. 1: hbk) 0674031199 (v. 1: hbk) 9780674064713 (v. 2 pt. 1 : hbk) 0674064712 (v. 2 pt. 1 : hbk) 9780674064720 (v. 2 pt. 2 : hbk) 0674064720 (v. 2 pt. 2 : hbk) |
| Language: | Ficino's texts in Latin with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English. |