Francesco Giorgi

Francesco Giorgi Veneto [Also called Giorgio, Zorzi.] (1466-1540) was a Venetian Franciscan friar, and author of the work "De harmonia mundi totius" from 1525. The "Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy" describes him as 'idiosyncratic'. [ p. 357. Also (p. 69) the CHRP talks of Giorgi as a synthesizer of the "pia philosophia" of Ficino, and the "concordia" of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (along with Henricus Cornelius Agrippa and Paracelsus); on p. 312 he is classed with Ficino and Nicolas of Cusa as subscribing to a macrocosm and microcosm theory.] He wrote also "In Scripturam Sacram Problemata" (1536).

Giorgi is extensively discussed in Frances Yates, "The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age" (1979). In Chapter 4 she states

In Chapter 12 she discusses Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" in the light of the theory of Daniel Banes that Shakespeare was familiar with Giorgi's and related writings on the "Cabala".

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Bibliography

*Saverio Campanini, "Francesco Giorgio’s Criticism of the Vulgata: Hebraica Veritas or Mendosa Traductio?" in G. Busi (ed.), "Hebrew to Latin, Latin to Hebrew. The Mirroring of Two Cultures in the Age of Humanism", Berlin Studies in Judaism 1, Nino Aragno Editore, Turin 2006, pp. 206-231.
*Saverio Campanini, "Ein unbekannter Kommentar zum „Hohelied“ aus der kabbalistischen Schule von Francesco Zorzi: Edition und Kommentar", in G. Frank – A. Hallacker – S. Lalla (edd.), "Erzählende Vernunft", Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2006, pp. 265-281.
*Saverio Campanini, "Le fonti ebraiche del De Harmonia mundi di Francesco Zorzi", in «Annali di Ca' Foscari», XXXVIII, 3 (1999), pp. 29-74.
*Saverio Campanini, "Haophan betoc haophan. La struttura simbolica del De Harmonia mundi di Francesco Zorzi", in «Materia Giudaica», 3 (1997), pp. 13-17.