Featuring philosophical commentary from Marsilio Ficino--a leading
scholar of the Italian Renaissance who translated all the works of Plato
into Latin--this work is the first English translation of Ficino's
commentary of Plato's dialogue between the philosopher Parmenides and
the youthful Socrates. In the scene, the older man instructs his student
on the use of dialectic to draw the mind away from its preoccupation
with the realm of matter and attract it towards contemplation of the
soul.