Commentaries on Plato

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Commentaries on Plato

Marsilio Ficino

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Marsilio FicinoPublished 2008cover on file

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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Edition	[Rev. ed.].
Publisher	Harvard University Press
Search language	italian
ISBN_13	978-0-674-03119-7 primary

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