Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Translator's Note; Foreword; PART ONE The Commentary of Marsilio Ficino to Plato's Republic; First Book; Second Book; Third Book; Fourth Book; Fifth Book; Sixth Book; Seventh Book; Eighth Book; Ninth Book; Tenth Book; PART TWO The Commentary of Marsilio Ficino to Plato's Laws; First Book; Second Book; Third Book; Fourth Book; Fifth Book; Sixth Book; Seventh Book; Eighth Book; Ninth Book; Tenth Book; Eleventh Book; Twelfth Book; PART THREE The Commentary of Marsilio Ficino to Plato's Epinomis; A Summary of Epinomis; Index
Summary
Searching for a definition of good government, this commentary from Marsilio Ficino examines three Platonic dialogues that have had a profound effect on Western statesmen and jurists. A leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance--who translated all the works of Plato into Latin--Ficino prepared these notes for Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of the republic of Florence, who aspired to be the kind of enlightened ruler Plato described
