Platonic Theology, Volume 5

“As in previous volumes, Allen has rendered an elegant translation of an often daunting neo-Latin text.”—Daniel Galagher, Classical Bulletin

“The English translation of volume 5 seems to have captured the sense of the Latin well… Although Neoplatonic philosophy will never be easy reading, this translation and the accompanying Latin text should be helpful to any student of Florentine Neoplatonism.”—Charles G. Nauert, Sixteenth Century Journal

“Ficino set out to show that the ancient Neoplatonic philosophy embodied a ‘gentile theological tradition,’ one that complemented the Mosaic revelation to the Jews and prepared its devotees for the final truths of Christianity. Ficino worked in full knowledge of the internal complications of Neoplatonism. He wrote and argued in styles that ranged from the logical and synthetic to the poetic and evocative, as he struggled to find ways to prove that the universe was orderly and governed by a Creator and to lay out the place within it of the immortal human soul.”—Anthony T. Grafton, The New York Review of Books