Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence : the Symbolum nesianum
This book publishes and discusses a hitherto unedited text from one of Renaissance Florence’s most tumultuous periods, the Savonarolan era of the end of the fifteenth century. Thus it illuminates the changing, dramatic nature of the cradle of the European Renaissance.
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xiii, 238 pages ; 25 cm.
9789004122116, 9004122117
47270264
AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction Pythagoras, Pythagoreanism, and the Pythagorean Symbols: Antiquity Through Middle Fifteenth-Century Florence Renaissance Florence and its Intellectual Currents: Marsilio Ficino and Angelo Poliziano Giovanni Nesi and Pythagoras: Between Ficino and Savonarola The European Context ConclusionTHE SYMBOLUM NESIANUMLatin Text and TranslationCommentaryAppendix I. Aurispa’s Preface to his Translation of Hierocles’ Commentum in Pythagorae versus aureos, Dedicated to Nicholas V: Text and TranslationAppendix II. Lelio Gregorio Giraldi’s Comment on the Symbol: “Nudis pedibus sacrificandum”: Text, Translation, and CommentaryAppendix III. Description of MS Florence BN II.I.158BibliographyIndex Locorum Symboli Nesiani Index Locorum Veteris Testamenti Index Locorum Novi Testamenti Index Locorum Antiquorum Gentilium Index Locorum Patrum Index Locorum Aetatis Mediae Scriptorum Index Locorum Corporis Iuris Canonici Index Locorum Aetatis Renatae ScriptorumIndices to the Introductory Study Index of Names Index of Subjects Index of Place Names
Latin text with English translation on facing pages