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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Facing pages

Latin appears on the verso and the corresponding English on the facing recto. Matching anchors identify the same comparison units across each spread.

Editorial divisions

Units ordinarily follow paragraph signs in the 1482 base witness. A source paragraph is divided only at a genuine logical joint when necessary for accurate comparison, and every such division is disclosed in the locator register.

Translation

The English follows the voice established in Diotimos Volume I: dignified and readable, faithful to the full logical sequence, imagery, technical vocabulary, qualifications, and rhetoric of the Latin.

Apparatus

The closing pages record consequential witness readings, interpretive notes, and a source locator for every comparison unit.

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.