Index
Works are indexed only if they meet at least one of the following criteria: they are mentioned more than once throughout the text; in a sentence, they are not mentioned alongside their authors.
Aboazar
:
see Abu Ma‘shar
Abraham
63–64
Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne
23
Abraham of Spain
:
see Ibn Ezra, Abraham
Abraham the Jew
:
see Ibn Ezra, Abraham
Abū Bakr al-Hassan ibn al-Khasib
91
Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Tufail
91
Abu Ma‘shar
33, 64, 69, 75, 85, 87–88, 90, 97–98, 99n122, 113, 120–122, 136, 150
De magnis coniunctionibus
87–88, 90, 97
Liber introductorii maioris ad scientiam iudiciorum astrorum
90, 120–121
Abubater
:
see Abū Bakr al-Hassan ibn al-Khasib
Abulafia, Abraham
59
Abunazar
:
see al-Farabi
Ackermann Smoller, Laura
95n100
Adam
62, 95, 97
Adelandus Arabus
:
see Adelard of Bath
Adelard of Bath
121–122, 157
Aglaophemus
57
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius
142n13
Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Misri
82
Alberti, Leon Battista
183
al-Bitruji
157
Albumasar
:
see Abu Ma‘shar
alchemy
19
alchochoden
78
Alemanno, Yohanan
15
Alexander of Aphrodisias
42–43, 149, 179, 182, 196
De fato
43, 179
Alexander the Great (king)
90, 109n10
Alexander VI (pope)
127
Alexei I (tsar)
162
al-Farabi
91
Alfonso I of Naples
:
see Alfonso V of Aragon
Alfonso II of Naples (king)
198
Alfonso V of Aragon (king)
83, 189, 198
Alfonso X the Wise (king)
69, 79, 98
Alighieri, Dante
:
see Dante
al-Kindi
17, 33, 87–88, 91, 108n9, 112, 153, 211, 213
doctrine of rays
17–18n64, 112
optics in
17–18n64
De aspectibus
17–18n64
De gradibus
17–18n64
De radiis stellarum
17–18, 112
almugea
113
almuseli (animodar)
86
Alpetragius
:
see al-Bitruji
Alpharabius
:
see al-Farabi
Ambrose of Milan
22, 50, 133, 209
Ammonius
45, 157
ancient theologians
:
see prisci theologi
ancient theology
:
see prisca theologia
angles
76–77, 117
Antichrist
89, 98
Aquinas, Thomas
17n60, 38, 51–52, 71, 92, 99, 103, 108n9, 109n13, 116, 123, 129, 132, 134–135, 159, 169, 179, 184–187, 197, 199, 209, 218
Aratus
190
Arcangelo da Borgonovo
206
Archimedes
74n8
Aries (sign)
88
Aristotelianism (Aristotelian tradition)
XII, 6, 9, 27, 33, 39, 41–42, 108, 110, 115, 122, 123n62, 134, 144–145, 155–156, 158, 179, 182, 184–186, 188, 195, 197, 211, 216–218
Aristotle
XII, 5–6, 8, 10, 27, 32, 38–39, 41–42, 46–47, 51–52, 73, 75, 79, 83, 99, 102, 104, 107–108, 108–109n9, 109n10, 110–111, 115–118, 122–123, 130, 133–138, 144–145, 147–150, 155–156, 158–159, 161, 172–175, 179, 181–186, 198, 208–212, 217–219
doctrine of light in
XII, 110–111, 116–118, 122, 156, 185–186, 219
matter in
26–27, 32, 114–116, 118, 122, 219
natural philosophy of
7n18, 8, 10, 26–28, 32, 51–52, 72, 83, 107–108, 110–111, 114–118, 122–123, 130, 134–135, 137, 148, 155–156, 179, 185–186, 197, 199, 211, 217–219
purification of
XII, 6, 39, 73, 75, 107–108, 110–111, 116–118, 122–123, 217–219
De caelo (On the Heavens)
32, 108, 111, 117, 174
Ethics
46
Liber de causis (The Book of Aristotle’s Interpretation of Pure Good)
108n9
Metaphysics
32
Meteorologica
108, 186, 210
Physics
32, 108, 110
Secretum Secretorum
109, 160–161, 211
Theologia Aristotelis
108–109n9
Artephius
102
astrology
astrological images (talismans)
19, 24, 48, 84, 100–101
dichotomy with astronomy
7n18, 13, 36, 40, 64–66, 68–69, 73, 81, 84, 182, 203, 218
horoscopic
33, 78, 86–87, 156, 202, 213
Islamic tradition of
19, 33, 46, 58, 61, 69, 74, 74–75n12, 84, 87–88, 96–97, 113, 119, 122, 191, 204, 218
judicial
36, 40, 42, 64, 113, 168, 208–209, 212, 219
lunar
118, 120–121, 156–157, 185
medical
47–48, 110, 118–119, 155–156, 158, 180, 183, 202–203, 208–209, 211
predestination in
21, 27, 49, 114, 135, 179, 183, 196–197, 213, 219
restoration of Greek
46, 73–75, 82–83, 204
Augustine of Hippo
22, 49–52, 62, 71, 99, 110, 123, 132, 135, 137, 144, 153, 159, 165, 170–171, 174, 196–197, 209
Anti-Pelagian writings
135
De civitate Dei
135, 165
De Genesi ad litteram
170–171
Aulus Gellius
41
Averroes
5–6, 38, 44, 133, 149, 182–183, 186, 208–209
Averroism
4–6, 109n12
Avicenna
38, 44, 108n9, 119, 133, 149, 186, 208–209
Bacon, Francis
144
Bacon, Roger
17–18, 92–97, 99, 101–104, 151, 153, 157, 169, 218
De viciis contractis in studio theologie
102–103
Barbaro, Ermolao
61
Bardaisan (gnostic)
50
Baron, Hans
196n29
Basil of Caesarea
22, 50, 132
Beccadelli Antonio
:
see Panormita
Bede the Venerable
23
Bellanti (family)
176–177
Bellanti, Lucio
33, 35, 91–92, 176–188
on predestination
179, 184, 186–187
on Pico’s horoscope
177, 201
De astrologica veritate
178–179, 187
Responsiones in disputationes Ioannis Pici adversus astrologos
35, 92, 177–179, 185, 200, 210
Bembo, Pietro (cardinal)
140
Ben Gershon, Levi
80
Ben Nahman, Moses
59
Ben Recanati, Mehanem
59
Benivieni, Antonio
130
Benivieni, Girolamo
10n27, 11, 130
Bentley, Jerry
198
Bernardino, Pietro
141
Bessarion, Basilius (cardinal)
73–74
сontroversy with George of Trebizond
74
Biank, Johanna
76n19, 77n22
Boer, Emilie
81
Boethius
144, 148
De consolatione philosophiae (The Consolation of Philosophy)
144, 148, 196
Boiardo, Feltrino (count)
4
Boiardo, Giulia
4–5
Boiardo, Matteo Maria
4
Boll, Franz
81
Bonatti, Guido
92–93, 96, 184
Bonelli, Federico
120
Bonincontri, Lorenzo
192–193
De rebus coelestibus
193
Bracciolini, Poggio
191–192, 196, 199
Bruno, Giordano
7n19
Bugni, Chiara
207
Bulgakov, Mikhail
191n7
Bülow, Nicholas
166–167, 169
prediction of Deluge
165–166
Blagoprokhladniy vertograd
166
Burckhardt, Jacob
XIn1
Busi, Giulio
15n52
Caecilius
180
Caelus (Uranus)
12
Calcidius
204
Camerarius, Joachim
83
Campanus of Novara
100
Cao, Gian Maria
141
Cardano, Girolamo
74, 83, 104
Carneades
41, 149, 208
Caroti, Stefano
36n18
Cassiodorus
94
On the Seven Arts
94
cause
accidental (ens per accidens)
116, 118, 134–135, 186, 199, 219
chain of
:
see Stoicism
individual
107, 110, 115, 135, 156, 179, 186, 199
natural
107, 117–120, 135, 137, 148, 156, 169, 179, 184–185, 187, 211
universal
11, 73, 106–107, 114, 135, 148, 156, 184–186, 199
Cavalcanti, Giovanni
113
Cavini, Walter
146
celestial spheres
as animated substances
12–13, 80, 157, 214
influence of
13–14, 18n64, 21–27, 32, 49, 51, 57, 79, 84, 89, 106, 109n13, 110, 112–118, 120, 155–158, 185–187, 199, 202–203, 208, 210, 213–214
motion (movement) of
13n46, 40, 64–65, 79–80, 106, 110–111, 115, 157–158, 185, 187, 210
number of
13, 21–23, 79–81, 137, 158, 208, 214
position of
24, 64, 107, 116, 187, 200, 202, 210, 212, 216, 219
rotation of
117, 120
virtues
12–13, 114, 158–159, 185–186, 213–214
Chalkokondyles, Laonikos
120, 120–121n55
Charles VIII of France (king)
167, 198
Cicero
12, 25, 41, 144, 149, 172n41, 182, 196, 198–200
De divinatione
25, 41, 144
Collis, Robert
165, 170
Columbus, Christopher
183
Comestor, Petrus
63
conjunction, doctrine of
6
Consalvo of Cordoba
198
Constantine the Great (emperor)
166
constellations
24
Copenhaver, Brian
34
Copernicus, Nicolaus
7n18, 36
Cortesi, Paolo
194–195
Corvinus, Matthias (king)
74n8
Cosmico da Ferrara, Niccolò Lelio
170
Creation
10–12, 34, 97
D’Abano, Pietro
92, 95n100, 191
D’Ailly, Pierre
18, 25, 72n1, 92–97, 99, 103–104, 151, 157, 184, 218
De concordantia astronomie veritatis et narrationis historice
95–96
Elucidarium astronomice concordie cum theologica et historica veritate
25, 95n100, 96
Vigintiloquium de concordia astronomice veritatis cum theologia
25, 95
D’Este (family)
5, 139, 141
D’Este, Bianca Maria
139–141
Daniel of Morley
191
Dante
69, 93n91
De Lubac, Henri (cardinal)
4n8
De Villa Nova, Arnaldus
89, 92
De’ Medici, Cosimo
55
De’ Medici, Lorenzo
16, 46n28, 127, 181, 216
De’ Medici, Piero
127
decans, theory of
33, 83–86, 113
Del Medigo, Elijah
5–6, 91
Democritus
17, 22, 41, 65, 133, 147, 182, 211
Diagoras
:
see Pythagoras
Didymus the Blind
50
Diogenes of Laertius
41, 147, 173
divination
25, 47, 64, 136n37, 143, 145, 149, 154, 167, 169
divine providence (predestination)
109n13, 115, 135, 144, 179, 196–197, 199, 213
dodecathemoria
85
Donskoy, Dmitry (grand prince)
167
Dulles, Avery
4
Earth (planet)
117
eclipse
20, 76–77
Egidio of Viterbo
20, 197
Empedocles
17, 22
empyrean
23–25
Epicurus
41, 144, 149, 172–173
Erasmus of Rotterdam
170
Erastus, Thomas
129
Ethicus
102
Euclid
122
Eudoxus of Cnidus
44, 65, 67, 149
Eusebius of Caesarea
50, 50n42, 97
Fadeev, Sergei
121n55
Farmer, Stephen
16n59, 18n65, 34
fate
42, 78, 136n37, 148, 158, 168, 179, 182, 195–197
Favorinus
133, 208
Fellina, Simone
6n14
Ferdinand I of Aragon (king)
198
Ferdinand (Ferrante) I of Naples (king)
198
Ferdinand II of Naples (king)
198
Ficino, Marsilio
5, 9, 11–12, 15, 17, 24–27, 36, 39, 41, 46–49, 50n42, 55–57, 58n16, 111–115, 120, 122, 130, 137, 145, 147, 150–153, 183, 192, 194, 197, 204, 212, 217
on astrology and magic
17, 27n114, 36, 47–49, 57, 112–114, 183
on light
24–26, 112–115, 120
on Plato and Platonism
11–12, 12n40, 14, 39, 57, 112–113
on prisca theologia
36, 50n42, 56–57, 57n14, 112, 147, 152–153, 194, 217
on spiritus
113
Commentarium in Epistolas Pauli
130n15
Comparatio Solis ad Deum
113
De amore
112
De lumine
9, 24, 112
De religione christiana
49, 56, 151–152
De Sole
9, 24–25, 48, 112
De vita libri tres
7n19, 9, 12n40, 48, 113, 183
Disputatio contra iudicium astrologorum
36, 47–48
Firmicus Maternus
43, 148, 182, 190–193
Mathesis
190–193
flow and ebb
:
see tide
foreknowledge
25, 134, 143–145
fortune
78, 135, 136n37, 158, 168, 182, 195–200, 202
Francesco I (count)
4
Frederick II (king)
69
Frontinus, Sextus Julius
191
Galen
118–119, 157
Galilei, Galileo
119
Garin, Giovanni
4, 7, 10n33, 36n18, 75, 121n58
Gassendi, Pierre
144
Geminus
77
Genesis
:
see Creation
Gentile, Giovanni
4
Gentile, Sebastiano
71, 75
George of Trebizond
50n42, 73–74, 81n36, 82–83
commentary on the Centiloquium
81n36, 82–83
Cur his temporibus astrologorum iudicia fallant
83
De antisciis
82
translation of and commentary on the Almagest
73–74
Gerard of Cremona
108n9
Gerbert of Aurillac
:
see Silvester II (pope)
Gorfunkel’, Alexander
36n18
Gratian
51, 133
great conjunctions, theory of
20n75, 33, 87–89, 92, 95–98, 113, 159
great year, doctrine of
33
Gregory I (pope)
132
Gregory Nazianzus
174
Guarino da Verona
192
Guevara, Antonio (count)
198
Guicciardini, Francesco
198
Haly Abenragel
78, 91
Haly Avenrodan
:
see Haly ibn Riḍwān
Haly ibn Riḍwān
82, 85, 136, 213
Hankins, James
197n30
Hasse, Dag Nikolaus
74n12
heat
32, 106, 114–116, 120, 156, 185
Hectoris, Benedictus
31n2, 194
Hendrix, Scott
101
Henry of Ghent
45
Henry of Hesse
149
Hermann of Carinthia
90n85
Hermes and Hermetism
4, 7n19, 11, 12n40, 17, 33, 41, 56, 58n16, 59, 66, 113n25, 193, 211
Hesiod
118
Hippocrates
119, 211
Homer
180
horoscopes of Christ, doctrine of
20, 33, 58, 137
horoscopes of religions, theory of
137
hylegh
20, 78–79
Iamblichus
43, 68, 114–115
light in
43, 111, 114–115
De mysteriis Aegyptiorum
XII, 111, 122, 153
Marsilio Ficino’s translation and paraphrase of
XII, 26n106, 111–112, 114–115, 122, 153
Ibn Ezra, Abraham
23, 26, 60–61, 86, 88, 91, 169
Innocent VIII (pope)
16, 127, 201–202
intellectus agens
26
Ioannes Astendensis
76n18
Isaac the Philosopher
:
see Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne
Isabella of Castile (queen)
198
Ivan III (grand prince)
160n2
Jacobus Cremonensis (Augustinian friar)
74n8
Jerome
63, 99, 132, 209
Jesus Christ
11–12, 20–21, 33, 58, 60, 95–98, 113
John Chrysostom
22, 50, 132, 153, 174
John of Damascus
174, 209
John of Jandun
6
John of Seville
109n10
Jonicus (Noah’s ‘fourth son’)
62–63
‘Judaizers’
160–161
Julian the Apostate
27
Julius II (pope)
140
Jung, Karl Gustav
19n70
Jupiter
ancient god
12
planet
12–14, 24, 88–89, 96, 98, 185
Justinian
52, 133
Kabbalah
astrology in
9, 19–21, 28, 58, 129n8, 208, 214
Christian
9, 15–16, 19–21, 57–60, 206–208
Sabbath in
21, 58
sefirot
21, 23, 79, 81
study of numbers and letters in
19–20, 60, 207–208, 214
Tetragrammaton
20
Karpov, Feodor
165, 172
Kibre, Pearl
71
Kieszkowski, Bohdan
16n59
Kimchi, David
60
Kuritsyn, Feodor
161
Lactantius
12
Landino, Cristoforo
38n1
Lascaris, Janus
164
law
canon (ecclesiastical)
5, 38, 51–52, 133, 150, 180
civil
38, 51–52, 133, 151, 180
Lefèvre d’Étaples, Jacques
58, 128
Lemay, Richard
82
Leo the Jew (Gersonides)
:
see Ben Gershon, Levi
Leoniceno, Niccolò
46, 183
light
XII, 10, 13–14, 22–28, 32, 43, 106, 110–118, 122, 156–157, 179, 217, 219
Linacre, Thomas
77
Lipsius, Justus
197
Luchinus
150, 183
magic
as study of the divine
16–19, 57, 151, 214
dichotomy between natural and demonic
16–18, 101–102
natural (magia naturalis)
18–19, 68, 152–153
theurgy and idolatry
17, 50, 54, 64, 66–68, 113n25, 133, 145, 151–154, 159, 166–167, 184, 190
Maimonides
162
Mainardi, Giovanni
33, 146
Mamai (khan)
167
Manilius
150, 184, 190, 192–193
Astronomica
190, 192–193
Mann, Thomas
9n26, 191n7
Manutius, Aldus
112, 164, 192
Aldina
192
Marcello, Jacopo Antonio
74n8
Marliani, Giovanni
45, 150, 183
Mars
13, 88, 98, 214
Masha‘allah
33, 87, 91
matter
14, 25–27, 32, 73, 112, 114–116, 118, 122, 186, 207, 217, 219
Maximus the Greek
XII, 163–175, 210, 220
on Catholicism
163, 165–168, 170, 174–175
on ‘Latin vice’ and ‘Hellenic charm’
XII, 163, 166–168, 174
Epistles Against Astrology
XII, 163, 165–167, 169–172, 174, 210
Words Against Juan Luis Vives
165
medical humanism
46, 74
Mehmed II the Conqueror (sultan)
74n8
Melanchthon, Philip
83
Mercury (planet)
96, 98, 212
Merula, Georgius
6
Messala
:
see Masha‘allah
Methodius
63–64
microcosm and macrocosm, doctrine of
59, 187, 208
Mithridates, Flavius
14–16, 91
Monfasani, John
82
Montefeltro, Federico da
15
Moon
20, 24, 78–79, 86–87, 89, 98, 106, 113, 116–120, 120–121n55, 156–157, 185
as regina coelestium
113
More, Thomas
129
Moro, Lodovico (duke)
167
Moses
22, 59, 63, 89, 166, 208
Muhammad
88, 98
Munekhin, Mikhail
167
Nanni, Giovanni
63
Nardi, Bruno
4
Neoplatonic tradition
XII, 10–14, 23–24, 26–27, 32–33, 38–39, 43, 68, 71, 81, 109n9, 111, 120, 120–121n55 123, 139n2, 160, 179, 204–205, 214, 217
doctrine of Creation in
11–12
doctrine of light in
10, 18n64, 22–24, 26–28, 111–115, 122
First Intelligence in
11–13
Triad in
12–13, 79
New Adam, doctrine of
59–60
Newton, Isaac
119
Niccoli, Niccolò
191
Nicholas V (pope)
74
Nifo, Agostino
170
Noah
62–64
Oosterhoff, Richard
77n22
Oresme, Nicolas
36n18, 45, 149
Origen
22, 44–45, 133, 149, 153, 209
Orpheus and Orphism
8, 41, 56
Panetius
41, 147
Panormita
189, 192
‘Porticus Antonianus’
189
Paravicini Bagliani, Agostino
100
Paul (apostle)
59, 95, 102n133, 103
Pereira, Benedict
129
peripatetic philosophy
:
see Aristotelianism
Perotti, Niccolò
74
Peter the Deacon
191–192
Peter the Great (tsar)
162
Petrarca, Francesco
191, 196
Petrucci, Pandolfo (ruler of Siena)
177
Philip of Tripoli
109n10
Philo of Alexandria
22n86, 64
Philotheus of Pskov
167–168
Moscow the Third Rome, doctrine of
167
Letter Against Astrologers
167
Pico della Mirandola, Galeotto (Giovanni Pico’s brother)
139
Pico della Mirandola, Galeotto (Lodovico Pico’s son)
140
Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco
XII, 31–35, 53–54, 60, 62, 65–68, 70–71, 127–130, 137, 139–159, 164, 173, 176–177, 208, 215, 219–220
on Caterina Mattei Racconigi
141, 143
on demonology and witchcraft
141–143
on Jewish thought
54, 60, 132, 154
on magic
54, 143–145, 148, 151–154, 158–159
on pagan knowledge and prisca theologia
32, 54, 142–145, 147–148, 151–155, 158–159
on prophecy
141–143, 145
scepticism in
133–134, 141–143, 146–147, 159
De imitatione
140
De rerum praenotione
32, 54, 67, 132, 142–147, 150–151, 154, 158–159, 210
Examen vanitatis doctrinae gentium
134n31, 141–143, 146
Ioannis Pici Mirandulae … vita
34, 66, 128–130, 140
Quaestio de falsitate astrologiae
145–146, 158–159
Strix
141, 143
Vita Hieronymi Savonarolae
140
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
authorship and authenticity of the Disputationes
32–37, 54, 61, 66, 70–71, 92, 128, 153, 180, 206, 215, 219
bereshit, interpretation of
60
human dignity, doctrine of
10, 59, 170
humanism in
22, 39, 46, 123, 130, 194, 205, 217, 219
Kabbalistic library of
14–16
Kabbalistic studies of
(
Kabbalah
)
4, 6, 9–10, 14–16, 22–24, 33–34, 57–58, 91, 128, 160, 216–217
knowledge of Arabic
15, 91
knowledge of Aramaic
15
knowledge of Hebrew
6, 14–16, 22, 57–58, 91, 128
on authority
27, 32, 44, 50–52, 63–64, 68, 72, 92, 103–104, 110, 116, 118, 122–123
on reconciliation of Plato and Aristotle
8, 27–28, 37–39, 53, 115, 186, 209, 217
on tradition
XII, 11, 13, 20, 22, 26–27, 36–46, 49, 51–54, 59–60, 62–66, 71–75, 80–81, 84–86, 90, 95, 104–105, 107, 110, 118, 122, 133, 136, 156, 182, 200, 209, 212, 214, 217–218
Pico-Ficino controversy
8n22, 9, 11, 27, 39
picus divinus
38n1
princeps concordiae
38, 217
‘re-conversion’ of
34–35, 66, 130, 180
relationship with Savonarola
XII, 9, 28, 33, 35, 62, 71, 92, 126–130, 138, 177, 180–181, 195, 200–202, 206, 216, 220
Roman dispute
10, 15, 25, 35, 44, 58, 127, 194, 201, 216, 219
900 Conclusiones
6, 8, 10, 14, 16, 18–21, 23, 28, 34–35, 44–45, 58, 79, 81, 97, 104, 121n58, 122, 154, 181, 186, 197, 206, 209, 216–217
Apologia
10, 16, 20, 34, 44–45, 181
Commento alla Canzone d’amore di Girolamo Benivieni
8n22, 10–14, 21, 23–24, 28, 79, 81, 216, 219
De ente et uno
XI, 8, 27, 37–39, 41, 47, 53–54, 104, 217
De vera temporum supputatione
98
Expositiones in Psalmos
9, 21–22, 25–28, 60, 111, 114, 122, 216
Heptaplus
10, 21–28, 34–35, 45, 59–60, 79, 81, 111, 114, 122, 154, 208, 210, 216
Letters to Gianfrancesco Pico
129
Opera omnia
34, 70, 127, 146, 194
Oratio de hominis dignitate
10, 16–18, 34, 59–61, 68, 91, 143, 151, 153, 170, 181, 211
Trilogy
14, 216
Pico della Mirandola, Lodovico
140
Pirovano, Gabriele
180n5
planets
13–14, 23–24, 78–79, 87–89, 98, 106, 112–113, 116–117, 120, 156, 158, 185, 214, 219
Plato
XII, 8, 17, 22, 27n113, 38–39, 41–44, 57, 65–66, 79, 99, 104, 111, 130, 133–134, 138, 144, 147–148, 153, 155, 158–159, 172–174, 181–182, 186, 204, 207–210, 212, 216–217
Renaissance revival of
120, 123n62, 217
Liber vaccae
99n121
Parmenides
38–39
Sophist
27, 38–39
Timaeus
111, 204
Plato–Aristotle controversy in the Renaissance
37, 74
Platonic Academy
in antiquity
38–39, 212
in Florence
56
Plethon, Georgius Gemistus
55–56, 120n55
Pliny the Elder
119
Naturalis Historia
119
Plotinus
12, 43, 49, 55, 68, 108n9, 111, 114, 133, 148, 182, 208, 212
on astrology
43, 49, 148, 182
Plutarch
41, 147, 173
Poliziano, Angelo
5, 27n113, 46–49, 71n57, 127, 130, 150, 165, 170, 183, 192
on astrology
46–47, 183–184
Panepistemon
46–47
Pomponazzi, Pietro
135, 178
Pontano, Giovanni Gioviano
XII, 83, 176, 189–190, 192–195, 197–204
‘Accademia Pontaniana’
189–190
as translator and commentator of Ptolemy
75, 81n36, 83, 190, 192–193, 203
on fortune
197–200, 202
on impetus
199
on inspiration
202–204
on John Duns Scotus
197
on Pico’s persona
194–195, 200–202
on poetry
203–204
De fortuna
193, 195, 197–198, 200, 204
De meteoris
190
De principe
198
De rebus coelestibus
192–195, 201, 204
Urania
190
Porphyry
17, 43, 68, 148, 151, 153, 182
Posidonius
208
praenotio
143–145
Primum Mobile (prime mover)
79, 110–111, 185
prisca theologia
22, 32, 36, 40–41, 53–61, 66, 70–71, 107, 123, 145, 147, 151, 153–154, 160, 173, 182, 194, 206, 211–112, 214, 217–218
prisci theologi
17, 19, 36, 40–41, 50n42, 55–59, 154, 212
Armenians
154
Assyrians
153
Chaldeans
40, 54, 61–62, 64–66, 70, 85, 153, 172
Egyptians
17, 40, 54, 59, 61–62, 64–66, 70, 85, 153, 172
Jews
54, 62, 154
Persians
17, 59
Priscian
195
Proclus
76–77, 80, 111, 149
Elements of Theology
108n9
Sphaera
76n19, 77, 80
Pseudo-Aristotle
:
see Aristotle
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
132, 208
Pseudo-Ovid
99, 102
De vetula
99n122, 102
Pseudo-Plato
:
see Plato
Pseudo-Proclus
:
see Proclus
Pseudo-Ptolemy
:
see Ptolemy
Pseudo-Thomas
:
see Aquinas, Thomas
Pseudo-Zoroaster
:
see Zoroaster
Ptolemy, Claudius
40, 46, 62, 64, 68–69, 72–90, 99, 104, 110, 116, 130, 136, 143, 150, 156, 159, 169, 183, 185, 197, 203, 212–213, 218
as commentator of Aristotle
72–73, 75, 83, 110, 136, 156, 183, 185
as principal astrological authority
40, 68, 72–73, 75, 104, 136, 150, 183, 213
Islamic commentators of
69, 74–75, 78, 85, 90, 136, 150
misinterpretations of
46, 72–73, 75–80, 84–85, 87, 89–90, 104, 130, 136, 150, 212, 219
Almagest
64, 72–74, 79, 110, 150, 168
Centiloquium
73, 75, 81–83, 85, 87, 89, 95n100, 190, 193, 203, 213
Tetrabiblos
72–73, 76, 82–83, 85, 86, 87, 89, 135, 143, 168, 190, 202, 212–213
Pyrrho
200
Pythagoras
17, 22, 40–41, 52, 57, 65, 133, 147, 172n41, 173, 182, 208–209
Golden Verses
182
Raspanti, Antonio
4n8, 11
Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg)
74, 192, 218
Defensio Theonis contra Trapezuntium
74
Reinhardt, Heinrich
4n8
Reuchlin, Johann
20, 58
Rheticus, Joachim
36
Rinaldi, Michele
190
Romanovs (family)
168
Roulier, Fernand
4, 216
Russo, Lucio
120
Rutkin, Darrel
8–9
Ryan, William
160, 161n3
Sacrobosco, Johannes de
77, 109n11, 162
Salutati, Coluccio
196, 199
Salviati, Jacopo
38n1
Saturn
ancient god (Kronos)
12
planet
12–14, 24, 88–89, 97–98, 185, 214
Savonarola, Girolamo
XII, 9, 28, 33, 35, 53, 62, 71, 92, 126–141, 143, 145, 147, 154–156, 159, 163–165, 168–178, 180–181, 188, 193, 195, 200–202, 204, 206, 208, 215–217, 218–220
Contro gli astrologi
128, 131–138, 147, 166, 171, 173–174, 209n12, 210
Il Trionfo della Croce
131
Savonarola, Michele
141
scholasticism
4, 7, 26, 39, 49, 51, 103, 108n9, 109, 134, 137, 144, 156, 178–179, 185–187, 191, 193, 198–200, 204, 210, 217–219
Schöner, Johannes
36
scientia naturalis
18–19
Scot, Michael
69, 93n91
Duns Scotus, John
(
Pontano
)
38, 179, 184, 186, 197, 199, 209
semina rerum, doctrine of
12
Seneca
147, 182
Severianus
94
Sextus Empiricus
71, 133, 142–143, 146, 200–201
Adversus astrologos
71
Adversus mathematicos
71, 133, 217
Sidonius Apollinaris
50
Silvester II (pope)
190
Sinitsïna, Nina
170
Socrates
172–173
Soldati, Benedetto
192–193
Soranzo, Matteo
204
soul
animated substances
(
see celestial spheres
)
human
12, 172, 208, 212
rational
11, 13
World
12, 121n55, 79
Speculum astronomiae
100–104, 137
stars
13, 23–24, 51, 78n24, 79–80, 106, 109n13, 110–111, 117, 182, 185, 192, 202, 204, 208, 211–112, 219
Steuco, Agostino
154
Stöffler, Johannes
166
Stoicism
causal chain
179, 196, 199
Renaissance revival of
147, 179, 182, 196–197, 199, 208
Strabo
23
Summonte, Pietro
195, 198, 201–202
Sun
20, 24, 78, 80, 89, 98, 106, 116–120, 156, 185, 212
intellectual (intelligible)
23–27, 112–113
light of
25–27, 112–113
natural (physical)
25–27, 113
tail and head of the Dragon, theory of
86
Tateo, Francesco
197, 200
Tatian the Assyrian
154
Tertullian
50
Thales of Miletus
66, 68
The Stagirite
:
see Aristotle
Theodoret of Cyrus
41, 147, 173
Theon of Alexandria
73–74
Tide
32, 119–122, 156–157
Timaeus (philosopher)
208
Toscanelli, Paolo del Pozzo
45, 150, 183
Trivulzio (family)
140
Trivulzio, Francesca
140
union of the human being with the separate intellect, doctrine of
6
unity of the intellect, doctrine of
6, 183
Valcke, Louis
8, 72n1
Valla, Lorenzo
39, 195, 200
Valleriani, Matteo
77n22
Vassily III (grand prince)
160n2, 164, 166–167
Venus
ancient goddess
12
planet
98, 212, 13
Virgo (sign)
96
virtus
196, 197n30
Vittorino da Feltre
192
Vives, Juan Luis
165
von Peuerbach, Georg
74, 218
Walker, D.P.
7, 36, 47–48
Weill-Parot, Nicolas
100
Westman, Robert
7n18, 81
will
divine
21n82, 115, 135, 168n31, 187, 196, 199
free
59, 67, 132, 135, 137, 144, 168n31, 169, 174, 179, 196–197, 199, 213
William of Malmesbury
190–191
William of Moerbeke
108n9
William of Paris (William of Auvergne)
149, 153
Wirszubski, Chaim
15, 206
Yates, Frances A.
7–8
Zambelli, Paola
8, 100
Zanier, Giancarlo
7–8
Zodiac, signs of
(
Aries
)
24, 82n43, 83–86, 88, 137, 156–157, 159, 208n10, 214
Zoroaster
11, 17, 41, 55–56, 66, 99
Zorzi, Francesco
XII, 20, 58, 176, 205–215
as commentator of Pico’s Conclusiones
206
on prisca theologia
206, 211–212, 214
on revelation and the Celestial Jerusalem
207–208
on universal and musical harmony
206–208, 214
In Scripturam Sacram Problemata
206
De harmonia mundi
176, 205–215
παρανατέλλοντα
85