"This long awaited translation of a key Renaissance work will prove invaluable to scholars and fascinating to the general reader."  —Michael Shepherd, editor, Friend to Mankind: Marsilio Ficino 1433–1499 "This is philosophy with a mystical dimension—one that is crucial to the original Socratic and Platonic teaching."  —Faith and Freedom "These prefaces [to Ficino's dialogues and letters] will interest intellectual and cultural ... Read morehistorians and students of philosophy, religion and literature."  —Renaissance Quarterly "The distilled conciseness of these writings gives us, more vividly perhaps than any other source, a sense of what Plato's wisdom meant to [Ficino] who became his apostle to the Renaissance."  —Temenos Academy Review Show Less