Tasso legge Platone. Qualche osservazione su cronologia e riusi delle postille al Simposio e al Commentarium in Convivium

The essay is centered on Torquato Tasso’s marginalia in the Latin translation and commentary of Plato’s Opera Omnia by Marsilio Ficino. Tasso’s copy, printed in Basel by Froben in 1539, is currently stored in the Vatican Apostolic Library (Stamp. Barb. Cr. Tass. 46). Particularly the marginalia on Plato’s Symposium and Ficino’s Commentarium in Convivium provide valuable insight into Tasso’s distinctive annotation method, characterized by multiple readings of the same material. Through a few examples, this study aims to illustrate how Tasso utilized the annotated volume as a significant scholarly resource to extract and incorporate content into his own literary and theoretical works.