Plotino e la tradizione platonica

Margherita Isnardi Parente's work on Plotinus comprises an introductory monograph, an extensive commentary on Enn. VI 1-3 On the genera of Being and a number of articles. Isnardi Parente's interest in Plotinus was firmly connected to the main topics of her research (Plato, the Ancient Academy and the Hellenistic Schools). Therefore, she was particularly interested in assessing Plotinus) distinctive position against the wider background of the Greek philosophical traditions. Isnardi Parente's work played a pioneering role within the Italian Plotinus scholarship and was, at the same time, interestingly connected to the international scientific debate between 1970 and 1990. Her rigorous historical and philosophical approach is still extremely valuable and can interestingly be contrasted to some recent tendencies in scholarship on late antique philosophy.