Maude Vanhaelen is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Italian and Classics at the University of Warwick.
Ficino’s focus was on the writings of Plato, which were the subject
of his study, his translation, and his extensive commentary. One of
the most extensive of those commentaries—on Plato’s Parmenides—is
now one of the most recent additions to Harvard’s superb ongoing I
Tatti Renaissance Library. In a two-volume accomplishment all the
more astounding for being conducted so unassumingly, Maude
Vanhaelen has taken Ficino’s 1496 edition of the commentary on
Parmenides, regularized its usages, combed out its typos,
modernized its spellings, and thereby produced the single finest
scholarly version of this long and problematic work yet made…
Thanks to Maude Vanhaelen and the I Tatti Library, we can now study
Ficino’s epic Parmenides commentary as it should be studied: with a
clear, nailed-down text, a fine English translation, and some
wide-ranging, hard-working notes. Renaissance scholars—that tiny,
hard-drinking enclave—will rightly rejoice.
*Open Letters Monthly*
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