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FRANCESCO GIORGIO’S DE HARMONICA MUNDI
| Author: | Dureau, Yona | |
| Year: | 2011 | |
| Pages: | 704 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-1582-3 978-0-7734-1582-9 | |
| Price: | $379.95 | |
A translation from the original Latin of Francesco Giorgio’s De Harmonica Mundi that establishes its connections to Christian Cabbala in the early Renaissance. This book includes a CD.
Awarded the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship
Awarded the Adele Mellen Prize for Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship
Reviews
“Yona Dureau has taken the great risk to retrace these great traditions prior to Francesco Giorgio’s age in order to provide the reader with the necessary clues to penetrate the DeHarmonica Mundi.” – Prof. Monique Venuat Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I The Start of the Initial Synaesthetic Quest
CHAPTER II Pythagoras: The Link between Music and the Proportions of the Universe
CHAPTER III Stars, Souls and Harmony: The Platonian Heritage
CHAPTER IV The Harmony of the World and Aristotle’s Methodology of Synaesthesia
CHAPTER V Harmony and Synaethesia in the Hebraic and Kabbalistic Tradition
CHAPTER VI The Weaving of the Three Traditions
CHAPTER VII The Essence of the Initiation to the Three Traditions Raising the Ladder of Music, Christian Contemplation and Imitatio Dei with the Help of the Shi’ur Komah, to reach the Harmonia Mundi
CHAPTER VIII The Reception of the De Harmonia Mundi in England
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I The Start of the Initial Synaesthetic Quest
CHAPTER II Pythagoras: The Link between Music and the Proportions of the Universe
CHAPTER III Stars, Souls and Harmony: The Platonian Heritage
CHAPTER IV The Harmony of the World and Aristotle’s Methodology of Synaesthesia
CHAPTER V Harmony and Synaethesia in the Hebraic and Kabbalistic Tradition
CHAPTER VI The Weaving of the Three Traditions
CHAPTER VII The Essence of the Initiation to the Three Traditions Raising the Ladder of Music, Christian Contemplation and Imitatio Dei with the Help of the Shi’ur Komah, to reach the Harmonia Mundi
CHAPTER VIII The Reception of the De Harmonia Mundi in England
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX