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The latest translation of Marsilio Ficino’s letters sheds new light on the life and intellectual development of one of the Renaissance’s leading figures. As head of the Platonic Academy in Florence, Ficino helped set the intellectual and spiritual foundations of the Italian Renaissance, the reverberations of which were felt throughout Western Europe for centuries to come. Ficino’s letters offer key insights into this philosophical and artistic movement and into the lives of the extraordinary people who led it. Noted correspondents include Angelo Poliziano and King Matthias of Hungary, and certain letters discuss the deaths of his pupils, his troubles with the Curia in Rome, his struggle to reconcile some of the differences between Plato and Aristotle, and Plotinus's influence on his astrology.

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'I find the new Ficino Letters volume a model of how to go about translating early modern authors from Latin (or Italian). Giving the original Latin is a boon, and all the other paratexts like mini-biographies, political terms, bibliography, superb dust-jacket, details about MSS and editions consulted, add to the user-friendliness and academic standing of the translation' Letizia Panizza, Royal Holloway, University of London

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Clement Salaman directs the translations of Marsilio Ficino’s letters. He is the translator of Asclepius and Corpus Hermeticum.

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