Description: Searching for a definition of good government, this commentary from Marsilio Ficino examines three Platonic dialogues that have had a profound effect on Western statesmen and jurists. A leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance--who translated all the works of Plato into Latin--Ficino prepared these notes for Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of the republic of Florence, who aspired to be the kind of enlightened ruler Plato described.
Review Quotes: "Fills a need, since these Ficinian works have never been translated into English before . . . Even those Anglophone scholars who know Latin still need a translation in order to read quickly through a large body of material." --Renaissance Quarterly