Renaissance

Renaissance

Florence, the rediscovery of Hermes, and its afterlife.

• Poggio Bracciolini The book-hunter · 1380–1459 · Florence and Rome
• Nicholas of Cusa Learned ignorance and the human god · 1401–1464 · Kues, Rome and Brixen
• Cosimo de’ Medici and the Hermetic Manuscript Hermes arrives in Florence · Florence · c. 1460–1464
• Lorenzo de’ Medici Il Magnifico · 1449–1492 · Florence
• Marsilio Ficino Translator of Plato and of Hermes · 1433–1499 · Florence
• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola The shaper of himself · 1463–1494 · Mirandola and Florence
• Giordano Bruno The infinite universe · 1548–1600 · Nola to Rome
• Tommaso Campanella The City of the Sun · 1568–1639 · Calabria, Naples, Rome and Paris
• Michelangelo Buonarroti The hand that obeys the intellect · 1475–1564 · Florence and Rome
• The Creation of Adam The Sistine Chapel ceiling · Rome · c. 1511–1512
• The Hermes of Siena A pavement panel in Siena Cathedral · Siena · 1488
• Isaac Casaubon and the Dating of Hermes The end of a legend and the survival of a text · 1614
• The Emerald Tablet The secret of creation · Arabic sources 8th–10th centuries · Latin from the 12th century
• Leonardo da Vinci The inquiring eye · 1452–1519 · Florence, Milan and Amboise