On Dionysius the Areopagite / Marsilio Ficino ; edited and translated by Michael J.B. Allen.

Author
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • Latin
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Description
2 volumes ; 21 cm.

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      Summary note
      "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."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Language note
      Comprises Ficino's Latin translations of two works by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (the Mystical theology; the Divine names), interspersed with Ficino's own commentary. The Latin texts are accompanied on facing pages by English translations. Introduction and notes in English.
      Contents
      • Volume 1. Mystical theology ; and, The divine names, Part I (chapters 1-135)
      • Volume 2. The divine names, Part II (chapters 136-351).
      In
      (MP) On Dionysius the Areopagite
      ISBN
      • 9780674058354 ((volume 1 ; : alkaline paper))
      • 0674058356 ((volume 1 ; : alkaline paper))
      • 9780674743793 ((volume 2 ; : alkaline paper))
      • 0674743792 ((volume 2 ; : alkaline paper))
      LCCN
      2014037088
      OCLC
      897468424
      Other standard number
      • 40025042068
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