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What made the Renaissance tick? Why had it such a force that its thinking spread from a small group of scholars in Florence, working in their own brilliant ways but coming together in a small villa on the Florentine hillside where Marsilio Ficino (143399) lived, to affect the thinking of the whole of Europe, and eventually of America, for five hundred years and is continuing to do so?
Cosimo de?Medici, the virtual ruler of Florence, had been attracted to the philosophy of Plato by Gemistos Plethon during the Council Florence in 1439 and had instructed his agents to gather together Plato?s works before Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453. In 1462 he commissioned Marsilio Ficino to translate them from Greek into Latin for the benefit of the Latin speaking world, a task he completed in under five years according to his biographer Giovanni Corsi.
This, the first volume in a four volume series, provides the first English translation of the 25 short commentaries on the dialogues and the 12 letters traditionally ascribed to Plato. Later volumes will provide translations of his longer commentaries on the Parmenides (2008), the Republic and Laws (2009) and Timaeus (2010).
Though this book will be an essential buy for Renaissance scholars and historians, its freshness of thought and wisdom are as relevant today as they ever were to inspire a new generation seeking spiritual and philosophical direction in their lives.
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GenrePhilosophy
Length8 hrs 7 mins
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Publish dateAug 8, 2012
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2The Historical Context
3Translator’S Introduction
4Acknowledgements
5Socrates
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6Plato
7Welcome
8Part One Summaries Of Twenty-Five Dialogues Of Plato
9Translator’s Notes to Part One
10The Preface to the Commentaries on Plato by Marsilio Ficino of Florence, Addressed to the Magnanimous Lorenzo de’ Medici
11Summary of Plato’s Hipparchus
12Summary of Plato’s Book on Philosophy or The Lover
13Summary of Theages, Concerning Wisdom
14Summary of Meno, Concerning Virtue
15Summary of Alcibiades I, Concerning the Nature of Man
16Summary of Alcibiades II, Concerning Prayer
17Summary of Minos, Concerning Law
18Summary of Euthyphro, Concerning Holiness
19Hippias or On the Beautiful and Noble: Summary Dedicated to Piero de-Medici, Father of His People
20Plato’s Lysis or Concerning Friendship: Summary Dedicated to Piero de-Medici, Father of His People
21Summary of Plato’s Theaetetus, a Work on Knowledge, Dedicated to Piero de-Medici, Father of His People
22Summary of Plato’s Ion or On Poetic Frenzy, Dedicated to the Magnanimous Lorenzo de-Medici
23Summary of Plato’s Statesman
24Summary of Protagoras
25Summary of Euthydemus
26Summary of the Lesser Hippias
27Summary of Charmides, Concerning Temperance
28Summary of Laches, Concerning Courage
29Summary of Cratylus, Concerning the True Principle of Names
30Summary of Gorgias
31Summary of the Apology of Socrates
32Summary of Crito, Dedicated to the Magnanimous Lorenzo de-Medici
33Summary of Phaedo
34Summary of Menexenus, Dedicated to the Magnanimous Lorenzo de-Medici
35Summary of Critias, or the Account of Atlantis
36PART TWO Discussions of the Twelve ‘Letters of Plato
37Translator’s Notes to Part Two
38Discussion of the First Letter, Written by Dion
39Discussion by Marsilio of the Second Letter, which Plato wrote to Dionysius, Tyrant of Syracuse
40Discussion by Marsilio of the Third Letter, Written by Plato to the Tyrant Dionysius
41Discussion by Marsilio of the Fourth Letter, Written by Plato to Dion of Syracuse
42Discussion of the Fifth Letter
43Discussion by Marsilio of the Sixth Letter, Written to Hermias, Erastus, and Coriscus
44Discussion by Marsilio of the Seventh Letter
45Discussion by Marsilio of the Eighth Letter, Written to the Same Relatives and Friends of Dion
46Discussion by Marsilio of the Ninth Letter
47Discussion by Marsilio of the Tenth Letter
48Discussion by Marsilio of the Eleventh Letter
49Discussion by Marsilio of the Twelfth Letter
50PART THREE Appendices
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