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At auction on Thursday 25 June 2026 at 15:00
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Florence, Antonio di Bartolommeo Miscomini, 7 May 1492. 2°, 338 x 235 mm. 442 leaves. Guide letters, printer's device, marks on the first and last leaves, otherwise an EXCELLENT COPY, 19th-century half-parchment and cardboard binding. Provenance: former Magliabechiana Library in Florence, issued as a duplicate (monogram MD).
Specialist Notes
FIRST EDITION OF PLOTINUS' WORKS, translated into Latin by Marsilio Ficino .
The dedicatory letter to Lorenzo the Magnificent, the work's sponsor, is a significant document on the history of Florentine Neoplatonism in the late fifteenth century. It is from this document that we learn how Cosimo de' Medici, enthused by Gemistus Pletho's readings on Plato's mysteries, commissioned Ficino to translate Plato and then Hermes. From the same letter, we learn that it was Pico who encouraged Ficino to translate Plotinus. In Plotinus, Ficino found not only parallels to Asclepius, whom he mentions in De Vita, but also a source of his beliefs about astral influences, the value of spiritual experiences, and the role of music as a means of elevating the soul to God.
BPH 161; HC 13121*; Goff P815; BMC VI 640; IGI 7906.
The dedicatory letter to Lorenzo the Magnificent, the work's sponsor, is a significant document on the history of Florentine Neoplatonism in the late fifteenth century. It is from this document that we learn how Cosimo de' Medici, enthused by Gemistus Pletho's readings on Plato's mysteries, commissioned Ficino to translate Plato and then Hermes. From the same letter, we learn that it was Pico who encouraged Ficino to translate Plotinus. In Plotinus, Ficino found not only parallels to Asclepius, whom he mentions in De Vita, but also a source of his beliefs about astral influences, the value of spiritual experiences, and the role of music as a means of elevating the soul to God.
BPH 161; HC 13121*; Goff P815; BMC VI 640; IGI 7906.
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