La Vénus de Plotin. Pic contre Ficin

This paper dealts with Plotinus’ two Venuses with a focus on Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola as concurrent readers of Enn. III 5[50], 2-3. It aims at explaining Pico’s antificinian criticisms in his Commento (1486) and it shows that Ficino’s first translation of Plotinus’ treatise 50 On Love – included in ms. Firenze, BNCF, Conv. Soppr. E I. 2562 – was functional to this dispute