Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II

Name: Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II
Author: Marsilio Ficino

Books V–VIII · Latin with an independent English translation

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Edition and source statement

This volume contains Books V-VIII of Marsilio Ficino's Platonic Theology. The Latin source work is in the public domain. No modern copyrighted edition, translation, apparatus, or paragraphing is used as production text.

The Latin reading text is independently established from the Florence 1482 editio princeps (M1482), collated against the Paris 1559 printing (G1559). The Paris 1641 Opera printing is used only as a late control. Abbreviations are expanded, routine orthography and punctuation are conservatively normalized, and consequential readings are recorded in the apparatus. The English translation is independently worded in the Diotimos Volume I voice.

The English preserves Ficino's argumentative sequence, metaphors, technical distinctions, repetitions, conditions, purposes, and qualifications while smoothing syntax only where clear modern English requires it. Stable comparison anchors are editorial and appear on both sides of every synchronized spread.

DIGITAL SOURCE RECORDS

M1482 https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00066894-9

G1559 https://patrimoniodigital.ucm.es/s/patrimonio/item/645358

P1641 https://archive.org/details/BIUSante_01177x01

About This Reading Edition

Volume II continues Ficino’s inquiry into the immortality of the soul through Books V–VIII. Its arguments consider the rational soul’s self-motion, its relation to the body, sensation, and the powers of the mind. The Latin and independent English translation follow the supplied edition’s facing pages and matching comparison units.

Historical Text and Translation

The Latin reading text is independently established from the Florence 1482 editio princeps (M1482), collated against the Paris 1559 printing (G1559), with the Paris 1641 Opera used only as a late control. Abbreviations are expanded, spelling and punctuation are conservatively normalized, and consequential readings are recorded in the apparatus.

About Diotimos Editions

Diotimos Editions prepared this independent English translation in the voice established in Volume I, preserving Ficino’s argumentative sequence, metaphors, technical distinctions, repetitions, conditions, purposes, and qualifications. Editorial notes and witness variants accompany their passages as numbered notes. The edition and source statement, contents, and reading guidance are also retained. The source locator register remains available in the downloadable edition.