Commentaries on Plato
By: Ficino Marsilio ; edited and translated by Michael J. B. Allen.
Contributors: Allen, Michael J.  B.
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library -- 34
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng; lat
ISBN-13: 9780674031197
Subjects: Plato
Work titles: Selections.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Phaedrus and Ion