London: Shepeard-Walwyn, 1978. First Edition. Octavo with blue boards in white and blue pictorial jacket; illustrated endpapers; 120p; notes; index; 24cm Fine in near fine jacket with a wee bit of toning around edges; now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 0856830364
"The letters contained in this volume follow chronologically from those in volume 1, published in translation in 1975. This second volume consists of the sixty-six lettes Ficino published in his Book III, which he dedicated (together with Book IV) to Matthias Corvinus, the king of Hungary, whom he regarded as a model of the 'philosopher king' referred to by Plato in his Republic. [...]" --Jacket copy. Ficino (1433-1499) was at the very fountainhead of some of the most characteristic and influential aspects of the Italian Renaissance. He perhaps more than anyone else was responsible for popularising the writings of Plato and other writers of Platonic inspiration." -C.B. Schmitt in the Times Literary Supplement.
