The Very Elegant Speech on the Dignity of Man. The first translation into this language of ORATIO ELEGANTISSIMA DE DIGNITATE HOMINIS with an appendix containing Robert Grossetest: Man Is A Smaller World. - The Great Book of the St. John's Program.

Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della and Charles Glenn Wallis (transl.):

Published by Annapolis (MD): The St. John's Bookstore, 1940

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25 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of the ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly bumped, binding stained, author's name underlined on cover, pencil inscription on verso, few pencil annotations in text. - From the text: Most venerable fathers, I have read in the records of the Arabians that Abdul the Saracen, on being asked what thing on the world s stage, so to speak , he viewed as most greatly worthy of wonder, answered that he viewed nothing more wonderful than man. And Mercury s, "a great wonder, Aesculapius, is man!" agrees with that opinion. On thinking over the reason for these sayings, I was not satisfied by the many assertions made by many men concerning the outstandingness of human nature: that man is the messenger between creatures, familiar with the upper and king of the lower; by the sharp-sightedness of the senses, by the hunting-power of reason, and by the light of intelligence the interpreter of nature: the part in-between the standstill of eternity and the flow of time; as the Persians say, the bond tying the world together, nay, the nuptial bond; and according to David, "a little lower than the angels". These reasons are great but not sufficient, that is, they are not reasons for a lawful claim to the highest wonder as to a prerogative. Why should we not wonder more at the angels themselves and at the very blessed heavenly choirs ? - Wikipedia: Charles Glenn Wallis (1914-1944) was an American poet, and English translator of French, Classical Greek, and Latin. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Very Elegant Speech on the Dignity of Man. The first translation into this language of ORATIO ELEGANTISSIMA DE DIGNITATE HOMINIS with an appendix containing Robert Grossetest: Man Is A Smaller World. - The Great Book of the St. John's Program.
• Publisher: Annapolis (MD): The St. John's Bookstore
• Publication Date: 1940
• Language: English
• Binding: Original brochure, stapled.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 550 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Klassische Philologie