Commentary on Plato's Symposium

Oration IV.

Declaration of Plato’s opinion on the ancient figure of humans. p. 19
Man is the soul itself, and the soul is immortal. p. 20
That the soul is adorned with two lights, and how the creation of the soul comes into the body with two lights. p. 21
Through how many paths the soul returns to God. p. 22
Love leads souls back to heaven, shares the degrees of beatitude, and gives eternal joy. p. 24

Oration V.

Love is most blessed because it is beautiful and good. p. 25
How love is depicted, and in what parts of the soul beauty is known and love is generated. p. 26
Beauty is an incorporeal thing. p. 27
Beauty is the splendor of the divine face. p. 29
How love and hatred are born, and that beauty is incorporeal. p. 30
How many things must concur for a thing to be beautiful, and that beauty is a spiritual gift. p. 32
On the painting of love. p. 33
On the virtue of love. p. 34
On the gifts of love. p. 35
Love is older and younger than all the other gods. p. 35
Love reigns before necessity. p. 36
In what way, while necessity reigned, Saturn castrated Caelus original: "Celio" and Jupiter bound Saturn. p. 37
Which gods give the arts to humans. p. 37