- 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" ofFicino , and the "concordia" ofGiovanni Pico della Mirandola (along withHenricus Cornelius Agrippa andParacelsus ); on p. 312 he is classed with Ficino andNicolas of Cusa as subscribing to amacrocosm 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 statesIn Chapter 12 she discusses Shakespeare's "
The Merchant of Venice " in the light of the theory ofDaniel Banes that Shakespeare was familiar with Giorgi's and related writings on the "Cabala ".Notes
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.
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