Brill's Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance PDF
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Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception Series Editor Kyriakos N. Demetriou volume 24 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bccr Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Edited by Irene Caiazzo Constantinos Macris Aurélien Robert LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustration: Pythagoras musicus, from MS Fondation Martin Bodmer, Cologny (Geneva), Cod. Bodmer 91, f. 141v. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Caiazzo, Irene, editor. | Macris, Constantinos, editor. | Robert, Aurélien, editor. Title: Brill’s companion to the reception of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris, Aurélien Robert. Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022. | Series: Brill’s companions to classical reception, 2213–1426 ; volume 24 | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021042346 (print) | LCCN 2021042347 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004373624 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004499461 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Pythagoras. | Pythagoras and Pythagorean school. Classification: LCC B243 .B76 2022 (print) | LCC B243 (ebook) | DDC 182/.2—dc23/eng/20211022 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042346 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021042347 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 2213-1426 ISBN 978-90-04-37362-4 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-49946-1 (e-book) Copyright 2022 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Hotei, Brill Schöningh, Brill Fink, Brill mentis, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Böhlau Verlag and V&R Unipress. All rights reserved. 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Contents Acknowledgements ix List of Illustrations and Tables x Notes on the Contributors xi Introduction: Pythagoras, from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity: A Multicultural Approach 1 Irene Caiazzo, Constantinos Macris and Aurélien Robert part 1 Pythagorean Number Theory and the Quadrivium 1 Pythagoras and the Quadrivium from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages 47 Cecilia Panti 2 Music and the Pythagorean Tradition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages 82 Andrew Hicks 3 Nicomachean Number Theory in Arabic and Persian Scholarly Literature 111 Sonja Brentjes 4 The Tribulations of the Introduction to Arithmetic from Greek to Hebrew Via Syriac and Arabic: Nicomachus of Gerasa, Ḥabib Ibn Bahrīz, al-Kindī, and Qalonymos ben Qalonymos 141 Gad Freudenthal 5 Medieval Jewish Pythagoreanism: Remarks on Maimonides and on Sefer Melakhim 171 Tzvi Langermann vi Contents part 2 Pythagorean Way(s) of Life, East and West 6 Popular Pythagoreanism in the Arabic Tradition: Between Biography and Gnomology 193 Anna Izdebska 7 Pythagoras’ Ethics and the Pythagorean Way of Life in the Middle Ages 229 Aurélien Robert Part 3 Theology, Metaphysics and the Soul 8 Pythagoras’ Philosophy of Unity as a Precursor of Islamic Monotheism: Pseudo-Ammonius and Related Sources 277 Daniel De Smet 9 The “Brethren of Purity” and the Pythagorean Tradition 296 Carmela Baffioni 10 “Pythagoras’ Mistake”: The Transmigration of Souls in the Latin Middle Ages and Beyond 322 Irene Caiazzo 11 Pythagoras Latinus: Aquinas’ Interpretation of Pythagoreanism in His Aristotelian Commentaries 350 Marta Borgo and Iacopo Costa 12 Latin Christian Neopythagorean Theology: A Speculative Summa 373 David Albertson Contents vii Part 4 New Trends in Early Modern Pythagoreanism 13 Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism in the Renaissance: Philosophical and Religious Itineraries from Pico to Brucker 417 Denis J.-J. Robichaud 14 Pythagorean Number Mysticism in the Renaissance: An Overview 457 Jean-Pierre Brach Index of Names 489 Acknowledgements At the end of this Companion’s journey, we would like to thank a number of people for their valuable participation. First of all we would like to express our gratitude to the editor of the series “Brill’s Companions to the Classical Reception”, Kyriakos N. Demetriou, for having warmly welcomed our volume proposal from the very beginning – ἀρχὴ γὰρ ἥμισυ παντός! –, and for having supported and encouraged our endeavours at every stage in an extremely positive spirit. Of course the book would not have existed without the expert scholarship and the fine work of our contributors. Now is the time to thank all of them for their eagerness to honour our proposal, for their attentiveness, and for their generosity. It was a real pleasure to collaborate with them! Special thanks are due to Giulia Moriconi, the associate editor for Classical studies at Brill, for her availability and efficiency at all stages of the book’s production; to the anonymous readers, for their very substantial suggestions, which helped us to improve the book as a whole both in form and content; to Claire Raynal (LEM, EPHE, PSL University), for the care with which she helped us in formatting the individual chapters at an initial stage; to the proofreader and to the editorial team at Brill for their expert work while preparing this volume for publication. We would also like to thank the ‘Fondation Martin Bodmer’ (Geneva) for granting us reproduction rights of the image used for the cover of the volume. Last but not least, we are particularly thankful to our ‘research units’ for their continuous support and to the French ‘National Centre for Scientific Research’ (CNRS) for the freedom of thought and expression it grants its fellows. Irene Caiazzo Constantinos Macris Aurélien Robert Paris, 4th August 2021
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