TY  - BOOK
AB  - "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.
AU  - Ficino, Marsilio,
AU  - Allen, Michael J. B.,
AU  - Pseudo-Dionysius,
AU  - Pseudo-Dionysius,
AU  - Pseudo-Dionysius,
AU  - Pseudo-Dionysius,
CN  - B785.F431
CN  - B785.F431
ID  - 809062
KW  - Neoplatonism.
KW  - Mysticism
KW  - Philosophy and religion
KW  - Christianity
LA  - eng
LA  - lat
LA  - 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.
N2  - "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.
SN  - 9780674058354
SN  - 0674058356
SN  - 9780674743793
SN  - 0674743792
T1  - On Dionysius the Areopagite /
TI  - On Dionysius the Areopagite /
VL  - 66-67
ER  -