Ficino's Latin translation of Plato
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Ficino's Latin translation of Plato is a landmark 15th-century rendering of Plato's dialogues that reintroduced and popularized Platonic philosophy in Renaissance Europe.
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| Ficino's Latin translation of Plato canonical | 1 |
| Ficino's letters | 1 |
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Target entity: Ficino's Latin translation of Plato Context triple: [Renaissance Platonism, hasKeyText, Ficino's Latin translation of Plato]
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Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino was a pivotal 15th-century Italian philosopher, priest, and translator whose revival of Plato and development of Neoplatonism profoundly shaped Renaissance thought and humanism.
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De interpretatione recta
De interpretatione recta is a humanist treatise by Leonardo Bruni that advocates for accurate, elegant translation from Greek and Latin into vernacular languages, helping to shape Renaissance theories of translation and rhetoric.
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Latin Fathers of the West
The Latin Fathers of the West were influential early Christian theologians and writers in the Western Roman Empire whose works, composed in Latin, helped shape Western Christian doctrine, liturgy, and biblical interpretation.
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Mirandola
Mirandola is a historic town in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, known as the birthplace of Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
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Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio is a late antique philosophical and cosmological exposition on Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis that deeply influenced medieval thought on the soul, the cosmos, and dream vision literature.
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Target entity: Ficino's Latin translation of Plato Target entity description: Ficino's Latin translation of Plato is a landmark 15th-century rendering of Plato's dialogues that reintroduced and popularized Platonic philosophy in Renaissance Europe.
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A.
Marsilio Ficino
Marsilio Ficino was a pivotal 15th-century Italian philosopher, priest, and translator whose revival of Plato and development of Neoplatonism profoundly shaped Renaissance thought and humanism.
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B.
De interpretatione recta
De interpretatione recta is a humanist treatise by Leonardo Bruni that advocates for accurate, elegant translation from Greek and Latin into vernacular languages, helping to shape Renaissance theories of translation and rhetoric.
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C.
Latin Fathers of the West
The Latin Fathers of the West were influential early Christian theologians and writers in the Western Roman Empire whose works, composed in Latin, helped shape Western Christian doctrine, liturgy, and biblical interpretation.
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D.
Mirandola
Mirandola is a historic town in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, known as the birthplace of Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
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E.
Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio
Macrobius’s Commentary on the Dream of Scipio is a late antique philosophical and cosmological exposition on Cicero’s Somnium Scipionis that deeply influenced medieval thought on the soul, the cosmos, and dream vision literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin translation
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Renaissance work ⓘ philosophical text ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Platonic Academy of Florence ⓘ |
| authorOfOriginal | Plato ⓘ |
| circulation | manuscript copies ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Cosimo de' Medici ⓘ |
| contains |
Dialogues of Plato
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surface form:
Plato's dialogues
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| containsWorkBy | Plato ⓘ |
| countryOfProduction | Republic of Florence ⓘ |
| date | 15th century ⓘ |
| endDate | 1480s ⓘ |
| genre | philosophy ⓘ |
| impact | standard Latin Plato for early modern Europe ⓘ |
| includesDialogue |
Gorgias
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Laws ⓘ Parmenides ⓘ Phaedo ⓘ Phaedrus ⓘ Philebus ⓘ Republic ⓘ Συμπόσιον ⓘ
surface form:
Symposium
Timaeus ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christian Platonism
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European philosophy ⓘ Florentine intellectual life ⓘ Renaissance Platonism ⓘ Renaissance humanism ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| laterForm | printed editions ⓘ |
| movement |
Italian Renaissance art
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surface form:
Italian Renaissance
|
| notableFor |
first complete Latin translation of Plato's works in the Renaissance
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integration of Platonic thought with Christian theology ⓘ popularizing Platonic philosophy in Renaissance Europe ⓘ reintroducing Plato to Western Europe ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| patron |
Cosimo de' Medici
ⓘ
Medici family ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
Neoplatonism
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Platonism ⓘ |
| placeOfProduction | Florence ⓘ |
| startDate | 1460s ⓘ |
| subject |
ethics
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metaphysics ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| translator | Marsilio Ficino ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Renaissance humanists
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scholars of Platonism ⓘ |
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