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Chapter 1 - Marsilio Ficino as Commentator on Plotinus: Some Case Studies

from Part I - The Italian Renaissance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2019

Stephen Gersh
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University of Notre Dame, Indiana
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Plotinus' Legacy
The Transformation of Platonism from the Renaissance to the Modern Era
, pp. 19 - 43
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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