Commentaries on Plato

Phaedrus and Ion

Marsilio Ficino, Michael J. B. Allen, Michael J.B. Allen

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English

Harvard Uni.Press Academi
15 December 2008

History; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600

Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

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 portrayal of the soul as a rhapsode whose song is an ascent into the mind of God. Both works bear witness to Ficino's attempt to revive a Christian Platonism and what might be called an Orphic Christianity.

By: Marsilio Ficino
Translated by: Michael J.B. Allen
Edited and translated by: Michael J. B. Allen
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: No. 34
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 446g
ISBN: 9780674031197
ISBN 10: 0674031199
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 15 December 2008
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michael J. B. Allen is Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of The Platonism of Marsilio Ficino.

Reviews for Commentaries on Plato: Phaedrus and Ion

Occasionally, a book arrives on my desk that makes me absurdly happy. And in this miasmal winter of our fiscal discontent, I am grateful for such small serendipities...The first is Volume 1 of Commentaries on Plato by 15th-century Florentine scholar and magus Marsilio Ficino.--Martin Levin Globe and Mail (01/23/2009)