Explore the timeless wisdom of love through Marsilio Ficino's Renaissance commentary on Plato's Symposium.This edition presents Arthur Farndell's English translation of Ficinos Tuscan version, offering fresh insights into the nature of love, beauty, and the soul's journey.
Step into a gathering of Renaissance minds at Careggi, where Ficino and his contemporaries discuss Plato's profound exploration of love. Delve into Ficino's interpretations of divine and human love, the soul's ascent, and the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. Discover why this commentary has captivated theologians, philosophers, and psychologists for centuries, and find guidance on how to cultivate a life of meaningful connection and purpose.
Target audience: Ideal for students of philosophy, Renaissance scholars, and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of love and its place in the human experience.
The distilled conciseness of these writings gives us, more vividly perhaps than any other source, a sense of what Plato’s wisdom meant to [Ficino] who became his apostle to the Renaissance. —Temenos Academy Review
It fills a need, since these Ficinian works have never been translated into English before. Even those Anglophone scholars who know Latin still need a translation in order to read quickly through a large body of material. —Carol V. Kaske, Cornell University inRenaissance Quarterly
“Ficino was anxious to show that there was no separation between religion and philosophy, and that Christianity and Platonism were compatible. Neither was there a sharp distinction between human nature and the supernatural, but a ‘ladder of love’ existed between human love and divine love . . . A short review cannot do justice to the wide-ranging treatment of love that is dealt with in this work . . . a valuable addition to the corpus of Ficino’s works translated into English.” —RosemlC%
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