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Plato in the Italian Renaissance, Vol. 1

By James Hankins

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
1990
ISBN
9789004095526, 9789004091610
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
98 MB (102943551 bytes)
Series
Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition
Pages
884\402
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 02:21:46

Description

Plato in the Italian Renaissance, the first book-length treatment of Renaissance Platonism in over fifty years, is a study of the dramatic revival of interest in the Platonic dialogues in Italy in the fifteenth century. Through a richly contextual study of the translations and commentaries on Plato, James Hankins seeks to show how the interpretation of Plato was molded by the expectations of fifteenth-century readers, by the need to protect Plato against his critics, and the broader hermeneutical assumptions and practices of the period.

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