The Letters of Marsilio Ficino.(Book review)

Renaissance Quarterly | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Marsilio Ficino. The Letters of Marsilio Ficino.

Volumes 1-7. Trans. Members of the Language Department of the School of Economic Science, London. London: Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd., 2001. index. append. bibl. [pounds sterling]140. ISBN: 0-85683-010-0.

Ficino divided his letters into twelve books. The translators (hereafter SES) decided to defer book 2 because its contents are better described as freestanding treatises than as letters: they represent rough drafts whose finished versions are published elsewhere. Therefore Letters 2 contains book 3, ...

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