"In 1484, humanist philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino published the first complete Latin translation of Plato's extant works. Students of Plato now had access to the entire range of the dialogues, which revealed to Renaissance audiences the rich ancient landscape of myth…
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Prosopon/Persona: Philosophy and Rhetoric -- Chapter 2. Ficino and the Platonic Corpus -- Chapter 3. Socrates -- Chapter 4. Pythagoras and Pythagoreans -- Chapter 5. Plato -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Heuristic Prosopography of Ficin…
In 1484, humanist philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino published the first complete Latin translation of Plato's extant works. Students of Plato now had access to the entire range of the dialogues, which revealed to Renaissance audiences the rich ancient landscape of myths…
In 1484, humanist philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino published the first complete Latin translation of Plato's extant works. Plato's Persona is the first book to undertake a synthetic study of Ficino's interpretation of the Platonic corpus.