On Dionysius the Areopagite

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By Marsilio Ficino

Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

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In 1490/92, Marsilio Ficino translated and commented on two treatises attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite, a disciple of St. Paul. Ficino revealed these works as products of a sixth-century Christian Neoplatonist, showing their influence on later pagan Platonic thinkers such as Plotinus and Iamblichus. This volume presents these key texts of fifteenth-century Christian Platonism with new critical editions and the first modern English translations.
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On Dionysius the Areopagite

In 1490/92 the Florentine Platonist Marsilio Ficino made new translations of two treatises he believed were the work of Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of St. Paul mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. They are presented here in new critical editions accompanied by English translations, the first into any modern language.

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In 1490/92, Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar, philosopher, and 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.