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Commentaries on Plato

Author: Marsilio Ficino; Michael J B Allen; Plato.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008-
Series: I Tatti Renaissance library, 34.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume 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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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499.
Commentaries on Plato.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008-
(OCoLC)609214132
Named Person: Plato.; Plato.; Plato.
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Marsilio Ficino; Michael J B Allen; Plato.
ISBN: 9780674031197 0674031199
OCLC Number: 225874258
Language Note: Ficino's texts in Latin with English translation on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
Notes: Volume 1 is a revised edition of Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran charioteer (1981), also edited by Michael J.B. Allen.
Description: v. ; 21 cm.
Contents: v. 1. Phaedrus and Ion.
Series Title: I Tatti Renaissance library, 34.
Other Titles: Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran charioteer.
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Responsibility: Marsilio Ficino ; edited and translated by Michael J.B. Allen.
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