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Title

Timaeus, vel De natura divini Platonis

Description

This volume contains Marsilio Ficino’s Latin translation of the Timaeus, edited by Francisco Zampino. The text was printed in Paris by Prigent Calvarin in 1536 (a reprint of the original 1527 edition) and later bound together with four other texts published between 1532 and 1557 by various printers. These texts include the following works: Alcinous’ Philosophi ad Platonis Dogmata Introductio and Philosophi Platonici de Doctrina Platonis Liber, Speusippus’ Platonis Discipuli Liber de Platonis Definitionibus, Xenocrates’ Philosophi Platonici Liber de Morte, Marsilio Ficino’s translation of Plato’s Phaedo, Demetrius Phalereus’ De Elocutione Liber, and the Opuscula of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. In order to bind the Timaeus with these other texts, the pages had to be cut down to a uniform size. This process caused the truncation of certain marginal notes written prior to the rebinding. These notes reference other commentators on the Timaeus, including Cicero, Proclus, and Calcidius. The pages displayed translate a passage from the beginning of the Timaeus in which Critias concludes Solon’s story and Timaeus begins his cosmological speech.

Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)

IUA00156

Authors

Plato.

Full Title

Timaevs vel de natvra diuini Platonis...

Date

1536

Language

Latin

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Type

Text

Medium

Book

Bibliographic Citation

Plato., Marsilio Ficino, and Francisco Zampini. Timaeus, vel De natura divini Platonis. Parisiis: Apud prigentium Caluarin in clauso Brunello, ad insigne Geminarum Cypparum, 1536.