Michael J.B. Allen - ISNS Scholars Directory

Allen, Michael J.B. - Scholars Directory

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NAME:	Michael J.B. Allen
POSITION:	Professor of English
INSTITUTION:	Department of English, UCLA
EMAIL:	mjballen@humnet.ucla.edu
WEBSITE:	www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/mjballen/
RESEARCH INTERESTS:	English medieval and Renaissance literature, especially Shakespeare; Italian Quattrocento literature; Renaissance philosophy, especially the Platonism of Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola.
Selected Works: The Platonism of Marsilio Ficino (1984) Icastes: Marsilio Ficino's Interpretation of Plato's 'Sophist' (1989) Nuptial Arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's Commentary on the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's 'Republic' (1994) Plato's Third Eye: Studies in Marsilio Ficino's Metaphysics and its Sources (1995) Synoptic Art: Marsilio Ficino on the History of Platonic Interpretation (1998). Coauthored: Sources and Analogues of Old English Poetry: the Major Latin Texts (1976), and coedited Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto (1982) and Sir Philip Sidney's Achievements (1989).

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