Primary Literature

• [FCPh] In Philebum. Translated in The Philebus Commentary (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 9), Latin and English, M.J.B. Allen (ed./tr.), Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1975. Reprinted Tempe, Arizona: MRTS, 2000. (Scholar)
• [FCPl] Commentary on Plotinus, Stephen Gersh (ed./trans.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017–.
  • volume 4: Ennead III, Part 1 (books I–IV),
  • volume 5: Ennead III, Part 2 (books V–IX), and Ennead IV.
• [FDA] On Dionysius the Areopagite (I Tatti Renaissance library 66–67), Latin and English, Michael J. B. Allen (ed./trans.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
  • volume 1: Mystical Theology and The Divine Names , Part 1 (chapters 1–135),
  • volume 2: The Divine Names, Part II (chapters 136–351).
• [FCR-latin] De Christiana religione, Guido Bartolucci (ed.), Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019.
• [FCR-english] On the Christian Religion,. Dan Attrell, Barett Bartlett, and David Porreca (trans), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.
• [FN1] (Ficino translation) Pimander sive de potestate et sapientia dei by Mercurio Trismegisto, (Opere di Marsilio Ficino I; Ficinus Novus I), Maurizio Campanelli (ed.), Turin: Aragno, 2010 (critical edition of Ficino’s translation of the “Pimander”)
• [FN2] Predicationes (Ficinus Novus II), Daniele Conti (ed.), Turin: Aragno, 2014.
• [FN3] Commentarium in Epistolas Pauli (Ficinus Novus III), Daniele Conti (ed.), Turin: Aragno, 2018.
• [FNN] Commentary on the “nuptial numbers” in Plato’s Republic, 1496. Translated in Michael J. B. Allen’s Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato’s Republic, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
• [FOO] Opera Omnia, Basel, 1576. Photographic reproduction, Torino: Bottega d’Erasmo, 1959–. (Scholar)
• [FSF] Supplementum Ficinianum, 2 volumes, P.O. Kristeller (ed.), Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1938.
• [FPT] Theologia Platonica, 18 volumes, 1482. Translated as Platonic Theology (I Tatti Renaissance library 2), 6 volumes, Latin and English, James Hankins with William Bowen (ed.), Michael J. B. Allen and John Warden (trans.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001–2006. (Scholar)
• [FTBL] De vita libri tres, 1489. Translated as Three Books on Life (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 57), Carol V. Kaske and John R. Clark (eds/trans), Binghamton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1989. (Scholar)
• The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, 11 volumes so far, members of the Language Dept. of School of Economic Science (trans), London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1975–2020. One more volume is planned. (Scholar)
• Lettere (Carteggi umanistici), Sebastiano Gentile (ed.), Firenze: L. S. Olschki
  • volume 1, Epistolarum liber I, 1990
  • volume 2, Epistolarum liber II, 2010
• Commentaria in Platonis Sophistam. Translated in Icastes. Marsilio Ficino’s Interpretation of Plato’s ‘Sophist’, Latin and English, Michael J. B. Allen (ed./trans.), Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989. (Scholar)
• Commentaries on Plato: Volume 1, Phaedrus and Ion (I Tatti Renaissance library 34), English and Latin, Michael J.B. Allen (ed./trans.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. This volume includes:
  • Argumentum et commentarius in Phaedrum (Phaedrus). (Scholar)
  • Argumentum in Platonis Ionem de furore poetico (Ion)
• De Amore.
  • Commentary on Plato’s Symposium on Love, English translation, Sears Jayne (tr.), Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications, 1985. (Scholar)
  • Commentaire sur le banquet de Platon, de L’amour / Commentarium in convivium platonis, De Amore, Pierre Laurens (ed./tr.), Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2002. (Scholar)
• Consiglio contro la pestilenza, 1481. Modern edition, E. Musacchio (ed.), Bologna: Cappelli, 1983. (Scholar)
• “Ficino’s Cratylus Commentary. A Transcription and Edition”, Keith Percival (ed.), Studi umanistici piceni, 11: 185–96, 1991. (Scholar)
• Lessico greco-latino: Laur. Ashb. 1439, Rosario Pintaudi (ed.), Rome: Edizioni dell’Ateneo & Bizzarri, 1977. (Scholar)
• Monarchia (Ficino translation). Critical edition in “La versione ficiniana della Monarchia”, by Prue Shaw, Studi danteschi, 51: 289–408, 1978. (Scholar)

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