Much has been written in recent years on Plato as a critic of literature; but no commentaries have appeared in English on the Ion, or the opening books of the Republic in which Plato launches his attack on poetry, since the early years of this century. This volume brings togethe…
Commentaries on Plato
by Plato, Ficino, Marsilio, Ficino, Marsilio, Allen, Michael J. B.
fromI Tatti Renaissance Library
Commentaries on Plato
by Ficino, Marsilio, Ficino, Marsilio
fromI Tatti Renaissance Library
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 rh…