Article: Louis Le Roy's Sympose de Platon and three other Renaissance adaptions of Platonic eros*.

On 24 April 1558 Francois, Dauphin of France (1544-60) and Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-87) were married in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. (1) Among the gifts prepared for the newlyweds, one might at first blush seem rather peculiar--a French version of Plato's Symposium. Translated and extensively glossed by Louis Le Roy (1510?-77), Le Sympose de Platon, ou de l'amour et de beaute is divided into three books, the first addressed to the royal couple, the second to Francois, and the third to Mary. (2) Insofar as the general topic of the Symposium is eros, the dialogue could be considered an appropriate wedding present, partaking in the fiction that romantic, rather ...

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