The Dialogues of Plato

Pudet Siano sees himself as a kramatikos, which should be understood something like a philologist. So if he thinks that a correct philological reading of a text can correct an understanding of a philosophical text, well, then philology can step into the world of philosophy. Ficino has a slightly more sophisticated understanding and is interested in finding moments where Plato speaks in different rhetorical registers by using different rhetorical personae. He's working off of a Byzantine scolion that tells him that Plato does speak in his own voice in certain moments.