Commentary on a Canzone of Benivieni

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This work of Pico, though written in the form of a commentary on a poem by Benivieni, is actually a treatise on love. Pico intended the work to be read as a corrective to Marsilio Ficino's treatise on the same subject, Commentary on Plato's Symposium, and the two treatises were often read together, as in a French translation of the pair published in 1588. Pico's treatise was a major source for Castiglione's Courtier and Leo Hebreo's Dialogues of Love, and through them, as well as directly, influenced many artists and poets of the period, including Botticelli, Michelangelo, Spenser, and Jonson. Pico's treatise was admired not only for its views on love, but also for its allegorizations of classical myths.

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«It is remarkable...as an exposition in three books (plus a section of detailed glosses) of some of the leading ideas and motifs of Florentine Neoplatonism and Neoplatonic mythology, and as tantalizing evidence of major disagreements with Pico's distinguished mentor and 'brother Platonist,' Marsilio Ficino, the author of the age's most influential love treatise and its most subtle poetic theologian...(T)he Commento (made) an impact on English Renaissance poets, notably Spenser, Chapman, and Jonson...The translation is fluent and accurate. It is prefaced by a useful introduction...Even more useful are the end notes which suggest a wide range of references and point to possible solutions of a number of the many interpretative difficulties.» (M.J.B. Allen, University of California - Los Angeles). «This edition and translation promises to become as indispensable to Renaissance studies as is the author's translation of Ficino's Commentary on the Symposium.» (Carol V. Kaske, Journal of English and Germanic Philology)

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