Piety and Pythagoras in Renaissance Florence : : the Symbolum Nesianum / / Christopher Celenza.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions Series ; Volume 101
• VerfasserIn: Celenza, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christianity in East Asia ; Volume 101.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This volume sheds light on the transitions in the intellectual life of Renaissance Florence in the last quarter of the fifteenth century. Its point of departure is a hitherto unedited Latin text, the Symbolum Nesianum , whose original version was written by Giovanni Nesi, a follower of the famous Pl...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 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
• Conclusion
• THE SYMBOLUM NESIANUM
• Latin Text and Translation
• Commentary
• Appendix I. Aurispa's Preface to his Translation of Hierocles' Commentum in Pythagorae versus aureos , Dedicated to Nicholas V: Text and Translation
• Appendix II. Lelio Gregorio Giraldi's Comment on the Symbol: "Nudis pedibus sacrificandum": Text, Translation, and Commentary
• Appendix III. Description of MS Florence BN II.I.158
• Bibliography
• Index 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 Scriptorum
• Indices to the Introductory Study
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Place Names.