Stephen Gersh is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Studies and Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has published many books on authors from Cicero to Derrida, including medieval Latin and Byzantine writers.

• Introduction Stephen Gersh; Part I. The Italian Renaissance: 1. Marsilio Ficino as commentator on Plotinus: some case studies Stephen Gersh; 2. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on virtue, happiness and magic Brian Copenhaver; Part II. Sixteenth-Century France: 3. Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples and Charles de Bovelles on Platonism, Theurgy, and intellectual difficulty Richard J. Oosterhoff; 4. Symphorien Champier on medicine, theology and politics Guido Giglioni; Part III. The 'Cambridge Platonists': 5. Henry More and Descartes David Leech; 6. Ralph Cudworth as interpreter of Plotinus Douglas Hedley; 7. John Smith on the immortality of the soul Derek A. Michaud; Part IV. German Romanticism: 8. Schelling and Plotinus Thomas Leinkauf; 9. Hegel's programmatic recourse to the ancient philosophy of intellect Jens Halfwassen; Part V. The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: 10. Henri-Louis Bergson and Plotinus Wayne J. Hankey; 11. Plotinus and modern scholarship: from Ficino to the twenty-first century Kevin Corrigan.

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