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On Dionysius the Areopagite, Volume 1: Mystical Theology and The Divine Names, Part I - The I Tatti Renaissance Library Marsilio Ficino
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On Dionysius the Areopagite, Volume 1: Mystical Theology and The Divine Names, Part I - The I Tatti Renaissance Library
Marsilio Ficino
In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. They are presented here in new critical editions accompanied by English translations, the first into any modern language.
Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Translation of Ficino's commentaries on two works; Latin on the verso and the English translation on the recto; Latin texts translated from Ancient Greek. Publisher Marketing: In 1490/92 Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato, made new translations of, with running commentaries on, two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. His aim was to show how these two treatises (in fact the achievement of a sixth-century Christian follower of the Neoplatonist Proclus) had inspired pagan thinkers in the later Platonic tradition like Plotinus and Iamblichus. These major products of fifteenth-century Christian Platonism are here presented in new critical editions accompanied by English translations, the first into any modern language.
Contributor Bio: Ficino, Marsilio Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) was a leading thinker in Florence, a magnet for the most brilliant scholars of fifteenth-century Europe, where the Italian Renaissance derived its impulse and direction, and where the West was awakened to a new realization about itself. In devoting most of his life to the study and translation of the great dialogues of Plato and the Neoplatonists, Ficino and his colleagues were midwives to the birth of the modern world. Contributor Bio: Allen, Michael J B Michael J. B. Allen is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 4, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9780674058354 |
| Publishers | Harvard University Press |
| Genre | Textbooks Religion Religious Orientation > Christian |
| Pages | 592 |
| Dimensions | 145 × 214 × 38 mm · 680 g |
| Language | English |
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