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PLOTINUS (c.205-270). Opera, translated and with commentary by Marsilio Ficino (1433-99). Florence: Antonio di Bartolommeo Misconimini, 7 May 1492.
Median 2° (343 x 240mm). 440 leaves (of 442, lacking final quire containing the addenda [one leaf], and one blank). Printer's device (Kristeller 47), initial spaces with guide-letter. (Occasional light stains, occasional light marginal spotting, first blank on guard, one leaf creased at lower hinge, hole in last 6 leaves with loss of a few letters, last leaf mounted.) Provenance: early inscription erased from first page -- Vallure, N. 1236, £35.19 (flyleaf inscription).
FIRST EDITION of a primary document of Neoplatonism, which played an important role in the revival of Plato in the Renaissance. Ficino, encouraged by Pico della Mirandola, translated the works for his patron, Lorenzo de'Medici, and Ficino's dedicatory letter to Lorenzo in this edition is an important text in the history of Florentine Platonism. HC *13121; BMC VI, 640, XII, 46; Goff P-815
Median 2° (343 x 240mm). 440 leaves (of 442, lacking final quire containing the addenda [one leaf], and one blank). Printer's device (Kristeller 47), initial spaces with guide-letter. (Occasional light stains, occasional light marginal spotting, first blank on guard, one leaf creased at lower hinge, hole in last 6 leaves with loss of a few letters, last leaf mounted.) Provenance: early inscription erased from first page -- Vallure, N. 1236, £35.19 (flyleaf inscription).
FIRST EDITION of a primary document of Neoplatonism, which played an important role in the revival of Plato in the Renaissance. Ficino, encouraged by Pico della Mirandola, translated the works for his patron, Lorenzo de'Medici, and Ficino's dedicatory letter to Lorenzo in this edition is an important text in the history of Florentine Platonism. HC *13121; BMC VI, 640, XII, 46; Goff P-815
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