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Commentary on Plato's Symposium on Love

by Marsilio Ficino · Sears Jayne (trans.)

An English translation of Ficino's De amore, his commentary on Plato's Symposium written in 1469 in the form of a banquet among Florentine friends. The work spread Ficino's theory of love as the soul's ascent through beauty to God.

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