[Rarebooks] FS: Ficino's controversial text on Plato's Symposium. Florence: 1544

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Ficino, Marsilio (or, Ficinus, Marsilius). SOPRA LO AMORE O VER'
CONVITO DI PLATONE. Florence: Neri Dortelata. 1544. First edition in
Italian. Sm. 8vo. (40),251,(45)pp Index. With the blank leaf, b12.
Woodcut printer's device on title page; repeated on colophon. Later
full vellum, gilt tooled covers, light soiling, red & brown calf spine
labels. A.e.g.	$1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
An interesting and controversial Platonic text by Ficino (1433-1499)
about a banquet patterned after the Symposium, in which nine persons
take turns in discussing Plato's dialogue, assuming the names of his
nine characters. BL Italian STC p. 240. Not in Adams.

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