Phaedrus and Ion (Volume 1) (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
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Phaedrus and Ion (Volume 1) (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

by Marsilio Ficino

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Ficino’s Renaissance translations of Plato’s Phaedrus and Ion explore rhetoric, poetry, and the soul’s divine inspiration within the context of revived classical learning.

ISBN-13 9780674031197 ASIN 0674031199 Views 182 Publisher Harvard University Press Year 2008 Format Hardcover Product Group Book Pages 336 Created March 07, 2026 Updated September 28, 2026
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This volume presents Marsilio Ficino’s Renaissance translations of two Platonic dialogues.

The texts examine themes of rhetoric, poetic inspiration, and the nature of the soul.

Ficino’s renderings reflect the revival of classical learning in fifteenth-century Italy.

Readers encounter foundational ideas that shaped Renaissance humanism and later Western thought.

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