Plato's Third Eye

Contents: Introduction; The absent angel in Ficino’s philosophy; Ficino’s lecture on the Good?; The Sibyl in Ficino’s oaktree; Cosmogony and love: the role of Phaedrus in Ficino’s Symposium Commentary; Two commentaries on the Phaedrus: Ficino’s indebtedness to Hermias; Ficino’s Hermias translation and a new apologue (Co-authored with Roger A. White); Marsilio Ficino on Plato’s Pythagorean eye; Ficino’s theory of the five substances and the Neoplatonists’ Parmenides; Marsilio Ficino on Plato, the Neoplatonists and the Christian doctrine of the Trinity; The second Ficino-Pico controversy: Parmenidean poetry, eristic and the One; Marsilio Ficino’s interpretation of Plato’s Timaeus and its myth of the Demiurge; Marsilio Ficino, Hermes Trismegistus and the Corpus Hermeticum; Homo ad zodiacum: Marcilio Ficino and the Boethian Hercules; Summoning Plotinus: Ficino, smoke, and the strangled chickens; The soul as rhapsode: Marcilio Ficino’s interpretation of Plato’s Ion; Addenda & Corrigenda; Index.