Author: Marsilio Ficino
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Released: 2008
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library -- 34

Commentaries on Plato

2008 · Book · Marsilio Ficino

Ion (Plato)Phaedrus (Plato)Ficino, marsilio, 1433-1499 Neoplatonism Renaissance

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. by Marsilio Ficino