Gardens of Philosophy Volume 1

"This long awaited translation of a key Renaissance work will prove invaluable to scholars and fascinating to the general reader."  —Michael Shepherd, editor, Friend to Mankind: Marsilio Ficino 1433–1499 "This is philosophy with a mystical dimension—one that is crucial to the original Socratic and Platonic teaching."  —Faith and Freedom "These prefaces [to Ficino's dialogues and letters] will interest intellectual and cultural historians and students of philosophy, religion and literature."  —Renaissance Quarterly "The distilled conciseness of these writings gives us, more vividly perhaps than any other source, a sense of what Plato's wisdom meant to [Ficino] who became his apostle to the Renaissance."  —Temenos Academy Review