The work of Ficino (1433-1499), the most prolific of Florentine humanists, is generally relatively

The work of Ficino (1433-1499), the most prolific of Florentine humanists, is generally relatively accessible in France. Especially when compared to that, yet concise, another great figure of the Italian Quattrocento, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), whose treatise the more systematic the Disputationes adversus divinatricem astrologiam (1494), n 'is available in its first critical edition Italian, coordinated by Eugenio Garin there nearly half a century. I must say that, more than any other thinker Renaissance, the master of Careggi has since the 1980s a certain response sweet from the French academia, and the pages devoted to him Jean-Louis Chretien in The Dread of beauty are As highly revealing. [1] Ficino found the Belles Lettres a remarkable edition of the Platonic Theology and Commentary on Plato's Symposium [i]] in a translation of Marcel Raymond, who also signed, still in Belles Lettres, a biography of reference Florentin. You can read at will, Fayard this time his Three Books of life in the translation of the French humanist sweet Guy Lefevre of Boderie (1541-1598) also translator of Heptaplus sweet allegorical commentary Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the six days of creation [2], or explore the metaphysics of light browsing its Raptu De Pauli, his Orphica Comparatio Solis ad Deum, his De Sole and De Lumine [3] translated and annotated by Julie and Reynaud Sebastian Galland. The same group recently sweet published by Vrin part of the Letters of Florentin [4]. Many works generally available in their Italian critical editions, English and German.
Unfortunately - but not surprisingly - the noose tightens editorial wishing to address the comments of the Ficino Platonic dialogues, the Banquet apart. sweet A name becomes inescapable: Michael JB Allen, a specialist in Shakespeare and the Italian Quattrocento. We note in particular its critical editions Presses University of California at ficiniens comments Philebus, the Sophist, the Phaedrus and in Book VIII of the Republic [5] comment sweet that the Timaeus is integrated with an essay on the "third eye Plato" [6]. A report as a critical edition of Cratylus comment published in 1991 [7]. Before such a richly colored, yet fragmentary fabric collection presses Harvard and Cambridge, I Tatti Renaissance Library (ITRL), which publishes under an elegant sky-blue cover Latin philosophical texts of the Italian Renaissance, was given to mission is to unite all comments ficiniens dialogues of Plato in a single series, "Commentaries on Plato." The first volume, published in 2008, includes sweet comments in Phaedrus and the Ion. Professor JB Allen, sweet translator sweet for the collection of the Theologia ITRL Platonica Florentine [8], has provided leadership. In 2012, the second volume of the series sweet (in two volumes) provides commentary Ficino the Parmenides, sweet which very strangely no critical edition had previously emerged. Happily filled a void in the same year by the Milanese editions Leo S. Olschki [9].
Thus, in its proper salute the company of Professor Maude Vanhaelen, related to Italian and Classics departments at the University of Warwick. sweet The Latin version used is based on the first edition published in Florence Marsilio alive in 1496 in a set containing the comments Timaeus, the Phaedrus, sweet the Philebus and a section of Book VIII of the Republic, and incorporates corrections on the manuscript by the author until his death three years later. The introduction dense and carefully referenced, replace the comment Ficino in the history of philosophy and discusses the main theses. To this remarkable entry in add notes to the English translation and a comprehensive index, for example within each implicit occurrences to St. Thomas Aquinas in Ficino text. Maude Vanhaelen currently exploring the reception of the work of Ficino in the sixteenth century sweet in two main areas: the political takeover of Platonism on the one hand, the importance of demonology in the history of science on the other. Thus, the second volume sweet of the series "Commentaries on Plato," concludes the first phase of his research, sweet conducted in the continuity of the work of MJB Allen around metaphysical controversies that have animated or fractured, the Florentine Academy at the end of Quattrocento [10].
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