Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognized as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. Among his greatest accomplishments as a scholar was his 1492 Latin translation of the complete works of Plotinus (204–270 CE), the founder of Neoplatonism. The 1492 edition also contained an immense commentary that remained for centuries the principle introduction to Plotinus’s works for Western scholars. At the same time, it constitutes a major statement of Ficino’s own late metaphysics. The I Tatti edition, planned in six volumes, contains the first modern edition of the Latin text and the first translation into any modern language. The present volume also contains an extensive analytical study of Ficino’s interpretation of Plotinus’s Third Ennead.

《论柏拉图式的爱——柏拉图〈会饮〉义疏》是在多种译本的基础上整理而来，译者充分尊重原文，将其客观地翻译为现代汉语。本书的出版，当可正本清源，为相关研究者打通障碍、铺平道路，同时也能让国人明了西方文化和基督教语境下爱的根本取向，以及这个取向的可取、限度和局限。