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Bernardus Silvestris

    Bernardus Silvestris fue un filósofo y poeta platónico medieval del siglo XII, célebre por su obra Cosmographia. Este prosimetrum, que narra la creación del mundo desde una perspectiva platónica, empleó de forma pionera la alegoría para explorar cuestiones metafísicas y científicas. Sus escritos influyeron notablemente en autores posteriores, incluido Chaucer, por su distintiva fusión de profundidad filosófica y arte poético.

    The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris
    • 1990

      The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris

      • 180 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      Cosmographia ("Cosmography"), also known as De mundi universitate ("On the totality of the world"), is a Latin philosophical allegory, dealing with the creation of the universe, by the twelfth-century author Bernardus Silvestris. In form, it is a prosimetrum, in which passages of prose alternate with verse passages in various classical meters. The philosophical basis of the work is the Platonism of contemporary philosophers associated with the cathedral school of Chartres—one of whom, Thierry of Chartres, is the dedicatee of the work. According to a marginal note in one early manuscript, the Cosmographia was recited before Pope Eugene III when he was traveling in France (1147–48). - Wikipedia

      The Cosmographia of Bernardus Silvestris