Did Dante study the The Corpus Hermitic?

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Excerpt from The Corpus Hermitic? 2. All things being undefined and yet unwrought, the light things were assigned unto the height, the heavy ones had their foundations laid down underneath the moist part of Dry Space, the universal things being bounded off by Fire and hanged in Breath to keep them up.
And Heaven was seen in seven circles; its Gods were visible in forms of stars with all their signs; while Nature had her members made articulate together with the Gods in her. And [Heaven's] periphery revolved in cyclic course, borne on by Breath of God.
................Heaven was seen in seven circles; .............Seventh Heaven(maybe Enoch).........i
Excerpt from Paradiso -- Canto XXVIII
The Angelic Orders
Perhaps as close a halo seems to circle
The starlight radiance that paints it there
Around the thickest mists surrounding it,

25 As close a ring of fire spun about
The Point so fast that it would have outstripped
The motion orbiting the world most swiftly.

And this sphere was encircled by another,
That by a third, and the third by a fourth,
30 The fourth by a fifth, the fifth then by a sixth.

The seventh followed, by now spread so wide
That the whole arc of Juno’s messenger
Would be too narrow to encompass it.
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  • Re: Did Dante study the The Corpus Hermitic?

    Mon, January 29, 2007 - 10:53 AM
    The only part of the Corpus that Dante would have had access to would have been the Latin translation of the Asklepius.

    The Corpus is heavily Platonic, and Dante did have access to some important Platonic material, by way of Dionysos the Aereopagite and Latin translations of material attributed to Aristotle that was in fact merely paraphrases of Proclus. Dionsysos the Areopagite, it turns out, is nothing but paraphrases of Proclus, as well. Proclus' writings are very similar to much of what is found in the Corpus.
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      Re: Did Dante study the The Corpus Hermitic?

      Mon, January 29, 2007 - 5:53 PM
      Great work , Curt.........I'll have to explore that path
      • Re: Did Dante study the The Corpus Hermitic?

        Mon, January 29, 2007 - 6:45 PM
        It's kind of a funny coincidence - 'cuz I was just reading the Introduction to Dodds' translation of Proclus' "Elements of Theology" this morning - and Dodds goes into the whole thing about Dionysos the Areopagite and the Arabic paraphrases of "Aristotle" that are actually based on Proclus. There was one Arabic work in particular called, in Latin "Liber de causis" - which was very influential in the "Latin west" from the 12th century on.
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          Re: Did Dante study the The Corpus Hermitic?

          Mon, January 29, 2007 - 6:50 PM
          Wow I didn't realize there was so much connection to Aribic here...........
          I thought it was mostly introduced in Masadonia and the rest of Europe
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            Re: Did Dante study the The Corpus Hermitic?

            Tue, January 30, 2007 - 10:09 PM
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