ایکاستس: تفسیر مارسیلیو فیکینو از سوفیست افلاطون

Michael Allen's latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine thinker of the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino, will be welcomed by philosophers, literary scholars, and historians of the Renaissance, as well as by classicists. Ficino was responsible for inaugurating, shaping, and disseminating the wide-ranging philosophico-cultural movement known as Renaissance Platonism, and his views on the Sophist, which he saw as Plato's preeminent ontological dialogue, are of signal interest. This dialogue also served Ficino as a vehicle for exploring a number of other humanist, philosophical, and magical preoccupations, including the theme of man the artist and creator. Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I: Five Studies 7 1. The Ficinian Sophist and the Controversy with Pico 9 2. The Five Classes of Being 49 3. The Sublunar Demiurge 83 4. Icastic Art 117 5. Phantastic Art, Magic, and the Idola 168 Epilogue 205 Part II: Marsilii Ficini Commentaria in Platonis Sophistam 211 (A Critical Edition with Translation) 1. Headnote and Sigla 213 2. Praefatio 217 3. Argumentum 219 4. Commentaria 221 5. Index Auctorum 279 6. Index Nominum 280 Appendixes 1. Ficino’s Greek Text of the Sophist Scholion 283 2. A Guide to Ficino’s Chapter Divisions of the Sophist 285 Bibliography of Works Cited 289 Index to Introduction and Part I 301