Front Page Authors (by Period) Michael Silverthorne

Michael Silverthorne

About the Author

Silverthorne is professor of classics at McGill University in Montreal. He is recognized as one of the foremost translators of neo-Latin and has translated, among other works, Hobbe’s De Cive, published by Cambridge University Press.

In The Library:

• editor: Logic, Metaphysics, and the Natural Sociability of Mankind (1730)
• editor: The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (1742)
• translator: Natural Rights on the Threshold of the Scottish Enlightenment: The Writings of Gershom Carmichael (1724)