Book presentation

Marsilio Ficino as reader of Plotinus: the 'Enneads' commentary

(History of metaphysics, Brill, 2024)

February, Thursday 27th 2025, at 5 p.m.
Accademia Vivarium novum
Villa Falconieri, viale F. Borromini 5 - Frascati

This book represents the first ever systematic philosophical study of Marsilio Ficinos Commentary on Plotinus Enneads (first published in Florence, 1492), this work of Ficino being arguably as definitive for the Florentine thinkers later work as the Platonic Theology was for his earlier. Publication of the present study uniquely illuminates the extent to which Plotinus had always been the crucial influence over Ficinos revolutionary projects of introducing Platonic thought based on original Greek sources to western Europe, correcting certain features of late medieval and Renaissance Aristotelianism, and laying the foundations of a new Christian Platonism. The study can be read both as an independent introduction to Ficinos later philosophy and as the complement to the first modern edition and translation of the Commentary on the 'Enneads' itself also by Stephen Gersh (I Tatti Renaissance Library, 2017-).

With Author Stephen Gersh

Respondants:

Dragos Calma (University College Dublin)

Denis Robichaud (University of Notre Dame)

Álvaro José Campillo Bo (Accademia Vivarium novum)

How to participate:

Reservation required by writing to: convegni@vivariumnovum.net.