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Burning Lucretius: On Ficino's Lost Commentary

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1 Published in 2018 at "Studies in Philology"

DOI: 10.1353/sip.2018.0010

Abstract: Abstract:Sometime in the late 1450s the Platonic philosopher Marsilio Ficino wrote a "little commentary" on Lucretius's De rerum natura—a commentary he said he eventually burned as Plato once burned his own juvenilia. Scholars have read… read more here.

Keywords: ficino lost; burning lucretius; lucretius ficino; ficino ... See more keywords