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)