FICINO, Marsilio.- Epistolae. [Nuremberg], (per Antonium Koberger impraesse, anno incarnate deitatis 1497. xxiiii. februarii finiunt foeliciter). In-8° : [1]-CCXLIII-[9] lvs (tables bound at the end instead of the beginning, h4 blank lacking, holes...
Estimation :
1.200 / 1.500
Description
in the margins of title-page and last lvs, 2 tears repaired on title-page, dampstains, handwritten note on the back of Y8). 18th Century binding : calf, gilt decorated ribbed spine, red edges (upper joint partly split, scratches, flyleaves renewed).
Second edition (1st ed. : Venice, 1495) of the correspondence by one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance (1433-1499). Letters to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Angelo Poliziano, Bernardo Bembo, Ermolao Barbaro, etc. dealing with various subjects : religion, moral, music, Plato, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, books, mythology, etc. Illustrated with a schema in texto in the letter "Genelogia & Genesis Platonis". Ficino was the first translator of the extant works of Plato in Latin and as a reviver of Neoplatonism, ran the Florentine Academy created by Cosimo de' Medici. The philosopher and scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (14631494) was one of his students. # Pollain 1478; # Hain 7062; # Goff F-155; # BMC II-443; # Stillwell F-155; # GW 9874; # USTC 744848. ^ Seconde édition (éd. orig. : 1495) de la correspondance de l'humaniste italien Ficino traitant de sujets variés (littérature, Platon, religion...). Plein veau du 18e s. (tables reliées à la fin au lieu du début, mors sup. part. joint).
Second edition (1st ed. : Venice, 1495) of the correspondence by one of the most influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance (1433-1499). Letters to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Angelo Poliziano, Bernardo Bembo, Ermolao Barbaro, etc. dealing with various subjects : religion, moral, music, Plato, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, books, mythology, etc. Illustrated with a schema in texto in the letter "Genelogia & Genesis Platonis". Ficino was the first translator of the extant works of Plato in Latin and as a reviver of Neoplatonism, ran the Florentine Academy created by Cosimo de' Medici. The philosopher and scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (14631494) was one of his students. # Pollain 1478; # Hain 7062; # Goff F-155; # BMC II-443; # Stillwell F-155; # GW 9874; # USTC 744848. ^ Seconde édition (éd. orig. : 1495) de la correspondance de l'humaniste italien Ficino traitant de sujets variés (littérature, Platon, religion...). Plein veau du 18e s. (tables reliées à la fin au lieu du début, mors sup. part. joint).
