Commentaries on Plato: Volume 2 Parmenides: Part II
Will be published approx. on 13. August 2012
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-674-06472-0 (ISBN)
Description
Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Ficino's commentaries on Plato remained the standard guide to the Greek philosopher's works for centuries. Vanhaelen's new translation of Ficino's vast commentary on the Parmenides makes this monument of Renaissance metaphysics accessible to the modern student of philosophy.
The volume contains the first critical edition of the Latin text, an ample introduction, and extensive notes.
The volume contains the first critical edition of the Latin text, an ample introduction, and extensive notes.
Reviews / Votes
Ficino's focus was on the writings of Plato, which were the subject of his study, his translation, and his extensive commentary. One of the most extensive of those commentaries-on Plato's Parmenides-is now one of the most recent additions to Harvard's superb ongoing I Tatti Renaissance Library. In a two-volume accomplishment all the more astounding for being conducted so unassumingly, Maude Vanhaelen has taken Ficino's 1496 edition of the commentary on Parmenides, regularized its usages, combed out its typos, modernized its spellings, and thereby produced the single finest scholarly version of this long and problematic work yet made... Thanks to Maude Vanhaelen and the I Tatti Library, we can now study Ficino's epic Parmenides commentary as it should be studied: with a clear, nailed-down text, a fine English translation, and some wide-ranging, hard-working notes. Renaissance scholars-that tiny, hard-drinking enclave-will rightly rejoice. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-06472-0 (9780674064720)
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