Hermes and the Sibyl: A Note on Ficino's Pimander

Autor:	Jr. Frederick Purnell
Rok vydání:	1977
Předmět:	History Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts Philosophy 0602 languages and literature Sibyl 06 humanities and the arts 060401 art practice history & theory 060202 literary studies 0604 arts Classics
Zdroj:	Renaissance Quarterly. 30:305-310
ISSN:	1935-0236 0034-4338
DOI:	10.2307/2860046
Popis:	In April of 1463 Marsilio Ficino put the final touches on what was to be one of his most important and influential writings, his Latin translation of the Corpus Hermeticum undertaken at the request of Cosimo de’ Medici. Revered as the work of the legendary Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus, an authority mentioned with respect by Saint Augustine and Lactantius, the Hermetic texts came to occupy a position of preeminence in philosophical, literary, and artistic circles during the next one hundred and fifty years, principally in the form into which they were cast by Ficino. The status of Hermes as a philosophical source and as a link in the chain of ‘ancient theologians’ who foretold the truths of Christian revelation continued well into the seventeenth century.
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