On Dionysius the Areopagite

by Marsilio Ficino

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674743792
• ISBN13: 9780674743793
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"