A Platonick Discourse upon Love by Pico della Mirandola. Von Edmund G. Gardner. The Humanist's Library. Edited by Lewis Einstein; VII.

Sch�nes Exemplar auf B�ttenpapier / in Zweifarbendruck (schwarz und rot); mit illustr. Titelblatt (Title-Page by T. M. Cleland). - Englisch. - Giovanni Pico (Conte) della Mirandola (* 24. Februar 1463 in Mirandola in der heutigen Region Emilia-Romagna; � 17. November 1494 in Florenz) war ein italienischer Philosoph der Renaissance. Bekannt ist er heute vor allem durch seine Rede �er die W�rde des Menschen, in der er die Frage nach dem Wesen des Menschen und seiner Stellung in der Welt stellte und die Willensfreiheit als charakteristisches Merkmal des Menschen hervorhob. Mit seiner au�rgew�hnlichen Bildung und seiner Beredsamkeit beeindruckte Pico seine Zeitgenossen stark. . (wiki) // INHALT : Introduction ----- The First Book ----- The Second Book ----- The Sonnet ----- The Third Book ----- Notes to Introduction ----- Bibliographical Note. // . The harmonising of Platonism and Christianity was the chief aim of Marsilio's life. He had himself been troubled with doubts and difficulties, and had found in Platonic philosophy the solution of the problem. "There are some," he writes to Giovanni Cavalcanti, "who wonder why we follow Plato with such observance, he who seems to have dealt only with paradoxes and wonders. But they should consider that it is only the divine incorruptible things that exist in reality; bodily things only seem to exist, they are subject to corruption and change, and are no more than images or shadows of the real. While the other philosophers, almost all, by devoting themselves to the study of material things, dreamed therein images of truth, our Plato, intent upon divine things, alone or chief of all, kept watch. I hold, then, that we should follow Plato as a theologian rather than the other philosophers, even as we should commit ourselves to vigilant pilots rather than to those that sleep." . (XVI)