Commentary on Plato's symposium on love
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TextDallas, TX Spring Publications c1985Edition: 2d rev. edDescription: 213p.; appendix; bibliogContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-88214-601-7
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'Transl., with an intro. and notes by by Sears Jayne.'
Introduction. 1 Some problems of interpretation. 2 The circumstances of composition. 3 The argument. 4 The method. 5 Subsequent history. 6 The translation. Commentary on Plato's Symposium on love
'This great classic was the guide to love for many centuries, accounting for its madness and explaining its variety and purposes....Ficino...produced the first translation ever made of the complete works of Plato. Thiis book was popular in European court-circles for almost two hundred years and influenced paiinters such as Botticelli and Michelangelo, and writers such as Spenser and Castiglione.'`
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