Item #63751 Marsilio Ficino and the Phædran Charioteer. Introduction, texts and translations; a publication of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Marsilio FICINO, Michael J. B. Allen.

Marsilio Ficino and the Phædran Charioteer. Introduction, texts and translations; a publication of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. x + 274pp. Cream cloth with lettering to spine, references, appendix, bibliography, index. Introduction, texts and translations of Marsilio Ficino's commentary on Plato's "Phaedrus." From the publisher: "The commentary contains some of Ficino's latest and most speculative thought on Platonic theogony and mythology; on the metaphysics and the epistemology of beauty; on the soul's ethereal vehicles; in its flight, fall and immortality; and on the origins and natures of the four divine madnesees preeminently the divine and the amatory." Marsilio Ficino (1433 – 1499), scholar, astrologer, philosopher and theologan was enormously influential in shaping the Italian Renaissance. He is particularly remembered as a translator of Plato's works into Latin, and for his espousal of Neoplatonism. Top edge darkened, all else near Fine in near Fine dust jacket (Dust jacket in removeable mylar protective cover). Item #63751
ISBN: 0520042220

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