Hermeticism.- Hermes (Trismegistus) Pimandras utraque lingua restitutus, translated by Francois Foix de Candale, parallel text in Latin and Greek, title with woodcut device, ink ownership inscription and two small paper slips stuck down with ink inscriptions, woodcut initials and head-pieces, some spotting, later book-plate, 18th century reversed calf, Bordeaux, Simon Millanges, 1574.
⁂ First edition of this new translation of Hermes Trismegistus into Latin by Foix-Candale (1512-94), an important figure in the history of Neo-Alexandrian Hermeticism. In this instance, his esoteric philosophy reaches what has been termed a kind of ecstasy, for example in the dedicatory letter to Maximillian II Candale compares Hermes Trismegistus' knowledge of the divine as being equal to that of the Apostles and Evangelists.
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