Marsilio Ficino as Reader of Plotinus: The ‘Enneads’ Commentary
Jul 2024 · BRILL
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This book represents the first ever systematic philosophical study of Marsilio Ficinos Commentary on Plotinus Enneads (first published in Florence, 1492), this work of Ficino being arguably as definitive for the Florentine thinkers later work as the Platonic Theology was for his earlier. Publication of the present study uniquely illuminates the extent to which Plotinus had always been the crucial influence over Ficinos revolutionary projects of introducing Platonic thought based on original Greek sources to western Europe, correcting certain features of late medieval and Renaissance Aristotelianism, and laying the foundations of a new Christian Platonism. The study can be read both as an independent introduction to Ficinos later philosophy and as the complement to the first modern edition and translation of the Commentary on the 'Enneads' itself also by Stephen Gersh (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 2017-).
This book represents the first ever systematic philosophical study of Marsilio Ficinos Commentary on Plotinus Enneads (first published in Florence, 1492), this work of Ficino being arguably as definitive for the Florentine thinkers later work as the Platonic Theology was for his earlier. Publicat...
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Stephen Gersh, Litt. D (2019), Cambridge University, former Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Medieval Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, has published many books on ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy including From Iamblichus to Eriugena (Brill, 1978).
Stephen Gersh, Litt. D (2019), Cambridge University, former Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Medieval Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, has published many books on ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy including From Iamblichus to Eriugena (Brill, 1...
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