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Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros (2006)
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Schachter, M. (2006). Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros. Renaissance Quarterly, 59(2), 406-439. https://doi.org/10.1353/ren.2008.0331

This essay considers commentaries on and translations of Plato’s Symposium (by Marsilio Ficino, the Henri Estienne-Jean de Serres team, and, preeminently, Louis Le Roy) as well as an influential Neoplatonic passage from Baldassar Castiglione’s Il Cor... Read More about Louis le Roy's Sympose de Platon and Three Other Renaissance Adaptations of Platonic Eros.