On Dionysius the Areopagite. Vol. 2 The Divine Names, Part II

On Dionysius the Areopagite. Vol. 2 The Divine Names, Part II - The I Tatti Renaissance Library

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Publisher's 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780674743793
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 230.14092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 300
Weight: 592g
Height: 211mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 32mm