About the Author

Michael J. B. Allen is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. California has also published his castes: Marsilio Ficino's Interpretation of Plato's Sophist (1989), The Platonism of Marsilio Ficino (1984), Marsilio Ficino and the Phaedran Charioteer (1981), and Marsilio Ficino: The Philebus Commentary (1975).