Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 5
Subtitle: Ennead III, Part 2, and Ennead IV
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Sep 03, 2018
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780674974999
Description: "Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. Among his greatest accomplishments as a scholar was his 1492 Latin translation of the complete works of Plotinus (204-270 CE), the founder of Neoplatonism. The 1492 edition also contained an immense commentary that remained for centuries the principle introduction to Plotinus's works for Western scholars. At the same time, it constitutes a major statement of Ficino's own late metaphysics. The I Tatti edition, planned in six volumes, contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and the first translation into any modern language. The present volume also contains an extensive analytical study of Ficino's interpretation of Plotinus's Third Ennead."--Vol. 4, front inside flap of dust jacket.
Notes: Source title: Commentary on Plotinus, Volume 5: Ennead III, Part 2, and Ennead IV (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)