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On Dionysius the Areopagite, Volume 2: The Divine Names, Part II (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) - Hardcover

Book 67 of 101: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

Ficino, Marsilio

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9780674743793: On Dionysius the Areopagite, Volume 2: The Divine Names, Part II (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)
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ISBN 10: 0674743792 ISBN 13: 9780674743793
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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Michael J. B. Allen is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674743792
ISBN 13 
9780674743793
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
528
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