Sicut cyclopes allegorie e metafore della visione nel Commento alle Sentenze «Ad mentem platonis» di Egidio da Viterbo

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journal	RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA
section	Online First
title	Sicut cyclopes allegorie e metafore della visione nel Commento alle Sentenze «Ad mentem platonis» di Egidio da Viterbo Sicut Cyclopes. Allegories and Metaphors of the Vision in the Commentary on the Sentences «ad mentem Platonis» by Egidio da Viterbo
Author	Angelo Maria Vitale
Publisher	Vita e Pensiero
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online since	02-2022
doi	10.26350/001050_000297
issn	0035-6247 (print) \| 1827-7926 (digital)
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The Commentarium in primum librum Sententiarum ad mentem Platonis by the Augustinian friar Egidio da Viterbo (1472-1532) occupies a unique position in the context of early sixteenth-century Platonism. The work is characterised by the development of Ficinian themes and the use of a new philosophical and theological language, in which the acquisition of the tools provided by classical myth and Platonic allegory becomes central. In the stylistic and argumentative fabric of the Commentarium – characterised by continuous reference to a universe of pagan images and symbolic forms – metaphors, symbols and allegories linked to vision play a decisive role. Thus, for example, the Cyclops of the myth becomes a figure of ratio, unable to rise to the contemplation of the divine, and the reflected image becomes a figure of the precarious ontological condition of man, who is not only imago Dei in the Augustinian sense, but at the same time being and not being. keywords Egidio da Viterbo, Renaissance Platonism, Augustinian Platonists, Allegorical Language, Symbolism of Light Author biography Università degli Studi di Salerno. Email: amvitale@unisa.it Enter a comment for Sicut cyclopes allegorie e metafore della visione nel Commento alle Sentenze «Ad mentem platonis» di Egidio da Viterbo

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The Commentarium in primum librum Sententiarum ad mentem Platonis by the Augustinian friar Egidio da Viterbo (1472-1532) occupies a unique position in the context of early sixteenth-century Platonism. The work is characterised by the development of Ficinian themes and the use of a new philosophical and theological language, in which the acquisition of the tools provided by classical myth and Platonic allegory becomes central. In the stylistic and argumentative fabric of the Commentarium – characterised by continuous reference to a universe of pagan images and symbolic forms – metaphors, symbols and allegories linked to vision play a decisive role. Thus, for example, the Cyclops of the myth becomes a figure of ratio, unable to rise to the contemplation of the divine, and the reflected image becomes a figure of the precarious ontological condition of man, who is not only imago Dei in the Augustinian
sense, but at the same time being and not being.