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Florentius Of Valeránica
Florentius ( es, Florencio; – after 978) was a monk, scribe and artist of the monastery of San Pedro de Valeránica in the County of Castile.Miguel C. Vivancos Gómez"Florencio de Valeránica" '' Diccionario biográfico español'' (2018). All that is known of Florentius comes from the colophons of manuscripts he copied (or their copies). He gave his age as 24 or 25 years in a colophon of 945, but in another of 953 he gave it more precisely as 35. The latter is generally accepted, putting his birth around 918. His place of birth is unknown. He may have been offered to the recently founded monastery of Valeránica as a child oblate or perhaps to its nearby mother house, San Pedro de Cardeña. The first record of Florentius's activity is the foundation charter of the monastery of San Andrés de Boada, which he drew up on 1 March 937. That same day, he drew up Count Fernán González's charter of donation to the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza. On 15 March 942, he wrote up Fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moralia In Job 945 - Laberinto Conmemorativo - Biblioteca Nacional Cod80
The ''Moralia'' ( grc, Ἠθικά ''Ethika''; loosely translated as "Morals" or "Matters relating to customs and mores") is a group of manuscripts dating from the 10th–13th centuries, traditionally ascribed to the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. The eclectic collection contains 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Ancient Rome, Roman and Ancient Greece, Greek life, but often are also timeless observations in their own right. Many generations of Europeans have read or imitated them, including Michel de Montaigne and the Renaissance Humanists and Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment philosophers. Contents General structure The ''Moralia'' include ''On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great'', an important adjunct to his ''Life'' of the great general; ''On the Worship of Isis and Osiris'', a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites; and ''On the Malice of Herodotus'' (which may, like the orations on Alexand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
