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Francesco Giorgi Veneto (1466–1540) was an
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''De harmonia mundi totius cantica tria''
Venetiis, in aedibus Bernardini de vitalibus chalcographi, 1525. Digitized version of the copy at the National Library of Finland, perhaps the only known uncensored copy. *
De harmonia mundi totius cantica tria
', Parisiis 1545. Digital library of the French National Library. (The same copy can be found on the Internet Archive.) {{DEFAULTSORT:Giorgi, Francesco 1466 births 1540 deaths Italian Franciscans Italian male writers Christian Kabbalists
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friar, and author of the work ''De harmonia mundi totius'' from 1525. In it Giorgio proposed an idea of the Universe created according to the universal system of proportion, which may be studied as laws of mathematics used by architects. The ''Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy'' describes him as 'idiosyncratic'. He wrote also ''In Scripturam Sacram Problemata'' (1536).
Giorgi is extensively discussed in Frances Yates, ''The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age''
She also discusses Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice
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'' in the light of the theory of Daniel Banes
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that Shakespeare was familiar with Giorgi's and related writings on the '' Cabala''.Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (1979) chapter 12
A copy of ''De harmonia mundi'' is listed as once in the Library of Sir Thomas Browne. It is possible that Browne's copy was bequeathed to him from Arthur Dee
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. John Dee
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is also known to have possessed a copy of Giorgi's work.
Notes
Bibliography
*Francesco Zorzi, ''L'armonia del mondo'', a cura dSaverio Campanini
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*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.
*Giulio Busi, ''Francesco Zorzi. A Methodical Dreamer'', in ''The Christian Kabbalah. Jewish Mystical Books and their Christian Interpreters'', edited by J. Dan, Cambridge (Ma.), Harvard University Press, 1997, p. 97-125.
* Alfonso Vesentini Argento "Le due Chiese". Architettura religiosa del Rinascimento tra fede politica e scienza. Apostrofo Editore Cremona Press maggio 2021 ISBN 9788897819578
External links
''De harmonia mundi totius cantica tria''
Venetiis, in aedibus Bernardini de vitalibus chalcographi, 1525. Digitized version of the copy at the National Library of Finland, perhaps the only known uncensored copy. *
De harmonia mundi totius cantica tria
', Parisiis 1545. Digital library of the French National Library. (The same copy can be found on the Internet Archive.) {{DEFAULTSORT:Giorgi, Francesco 1466 births 1540 deaths Italian Franciscans Italian male writers Christian Kabbalists