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HERMES TRISMEGISTUS (ascribed to). Poemander, seu de potestate ac sapientia divina, in Greek and with Latin translation by Marsilio Ficino. -Aesculapii definitions ad Ammonem Regem. Paris: G. Morel for A. Turnebus, 1554. 4° (202 x 145mm). Greek and roman types, metalcut ornamental initials, printer’s device on title. With final blank. (Light marginal spotting, marginal paper flaw in one leaf.) 16/17th-century limp vellum (without ties).
EDITIO PRINCEPS OF A FOUNDATION TEXT OF THE RENAISSANCE. So important were the works of Hermes Trismegistus to the Renaissance that when a manuscript of Pimander was found in Macedonia by Lionardo of Pistoia and brought to Cosimo de Medici at Florence, Cosimo ordered Marsilio Ficino to interrupt his work translating Plato in order first to translate Hermes. The translation of Pimander appeared in 1471. Hermetic philosophy informed a wide spectrum of Renaissance humanism and its influence has been traced in works as disparate as Newton's physics and the writings of Shakespeare, Sidney and Spenser. It was not until the 17th century that the Corpus Hermeticum was shown by Isaac Casaubon to have been written in the 2nd-3rd centuries CE in Egypt, probably by Egyptians with a Greek education, and not by a single priscus theologus. Hoffmann II: 208; Adams H-346.
EDITIO PRINCEPS OF A FOUNDATION TEXT OF THE RENAISSANCE. So important were the works of Hermes Trismegistus to the Renaissance that when a manuscript of Pimander was found in Macedonia by Lionardo of Pistoia and brought to Cosimo de Medici at Florence, Cosimo ordered Marsilio Ficino to interrupt his work translating Plato in order first to translate Hermes. The translation of Pimander appeared in 1471. Hermetic philosophy informed a wide spectrum of Renaissance humanism and its influence has been traced in works as disparate as Newton's physics and the writings of Shakespeare, Sidney and Spenser. It was not until the 17th century that the Corpus Hermeticum was shown by Isaac Casaubon to have been written in the 2nd-3rd centuries CE in Egypt, probably by Egyptians with a Greek education, and not by a single priscus theologus. Hoffmann II: 208; Adams H-346.
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