American Cusanus Society Newsletter
Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 NICOLAI DE CUSA DE DOCTA IGNORANTIA
EDIDERUNT ERNESTUS HOFFMANN ET RAYMUNDUS KLIBANSKY
LIPSIAE IN AEDIBUS FELICIS MEINER
MCMXXXII
One of the First Two Volumes published in 1932 in the Heidelberg Edition of Cusanus' Opera Omnia
American Cusanus Society Long Island University C.W. Post Campus Brookville, New York 11548-1300 American Cusanus Society Newsletter AMERICAN CUSANIUS SOCIETY'S SESSIONS IN KALAMAZOO IN MAY 2005
The following program, which the American Cusanus THE 2005 MORIMICHI WATANABE Society submitted to the Organizing Committee of the 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, was LECTURE accepted. The Congress is scheduled to meet at Western DEDICATED TO OTTO GRUNDLER Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Ml, May 5-8, 2005. In accordance with the decision made by the Executive Committee of the Society in May 2002, the third lecture in the Morimichi Watanabe lecture series will be delivered Thursday, May 5: 1:30-3:00 p.m. during the 40th International Congress on Medieval Valley Ill, Stinson Lounge Studies at Kalamazoo as follows:
Session: 65 NICHOLAS OF CUSA I: Rhetoric and Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005: 5:15 p.m. Theology: Cases of Gerson and Cusanus Place: Valley Ill, Stinson Lounge Organizer. Peter J. Casarella, The Catholic University of Organizer. Peter J. Casarella America Presider: Peter J. Casarella Presider: Karfried Froehlich, Princeton Theological Speaker: Marcia L. Colish, Yale University Seminary Title: Resonances of Stoicism in High Medieval Speakers: David Zachariah Flanagin, Saint Mary's Thought: Adiaphora, Synderesis, and College of California Conscience "Godspeak: Rhetoric and the Bible in the Theology of Jean Gerson" Clyde Lee Miiier, SUNY- Stony Brook "Two Christmas Sermons: Jean Gerson and Prof. Marcia Colish Nicholas of Cusa on Verbum Caro Factum L. Est'" Prof. Golish kindly sent her curriculum vitae to the Editor, and it is presented below.
Thursday, May 5: 3:30-5:00 p.m. ***** Valley Ill, Stinson Lounge Marcia L. Golish Session 124: NICHOLAS OF CUSA II: Cusanus Research 80 Seaview Terrace #29, Guilford, CT 06437 as Critical Scholarship and Politics: The Tel. and fax: 203-458-2418 Legacy of Raymond Klibansky on the E-mail: [email protected] Occasion of His 1OOth Birthday Organizer: Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University Education: C.W. Post Campus B.A., Magna cum laude, Smith College, 1958 Presider: Morimichi Watanabe . M.A.. Yale University (History), 1959 Speakers: Hans Gerhard Senger, Heidelberger Ph.D., Yale University (History), 1965 Akademie der Wissenschaften D.H.L. (hon.). Grinnell College, 1999 "Raymond Klibansky - the Centenarian: His Contributions to Modem Cusanus Research" Employment: Peter J. Casarella, The Catholic University 1962-63: Instructor of History, Skidmore College of America 1963-65: Instructor of History, Oberlin College • 'The Doorkeeper of Modernity': The 1965-69: Assistant Professor of History, Oberlin Legacies of R. Haubst, G. Santinello and E. College Colo mer" 1966-67: Lecturer in History, Case Western Reserve University
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1969-75: Associate Professor of His+:· :y, Oberlin Books: College The Mirror c · Language: A Stud in the Medieval Theory 1975-2001 : Professor of History, Ob .11n College of Kno ~ ·tledge (New Haver., Yale University 1973-7 4, 1978-81 , 1985-86: Department Chairman Press, 1968), xviii, 404 pp .; second revised 1985-2001: Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, edition (Lincoln and London , University of Oberlin College Nebraska Press, 1983), xvii , 399 pp . 2003: Visiting Professor of Religious Studies and The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle History, Yale University Ages. I: Stoicism in Classical Latin Literature. 2004-2005: Lecturer in History, Yale University Studies in the History of Christian Thought, 34, ed. Heiko A Oberman (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985), Grants. Awards. Fellowships: xi, 446 pp. Paperback reimpression with Phi Beta Kappa, 1958 addenda and corrigenda (Leiden, E.J. Brill, Hazel Edgerly Prize, Smith College, 1958 1990), xii, 459 pp. Samuel S. Fels Fellowship, Yale University, 1961-62 The Stoic Tradition from Antiquity to the Early Middle Grants for research and travel , Oberlin College, 196;), Ages, II: Stoicism in Latin Christian Thought 1966, 1972. 1974, 1977, 1979, 1984, 1985, Through the Sixth Century, Studies in the History 1989, 1998 of Christian Thought, 35 , P-d . Heiko A. Obennan Research Status Appointment, Oberlin College, 1968- (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1985), X'. 336 pp. Paperback 69, 1989-90, 1999-2000 reimpression with addend<· : .~ rid corrigenda National Endowment for the Humanities, Yonger (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1990), X: 342 pp . Scholar Fellowship, 1968-69, Senior Fellowship, Peter Lombard, 2 vols ., Brill's Studies in Intellectual 1981-82 History, 41, ed. A.J. Vanderjagt (Leiden, E.J. Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, 1968-69 Brill, 1994), xi, 893 pp. ACLS Travel Grants, 1974, 1987 Medieval Foundations of the We stem Intellectual Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, Tradition, 400-1400, The Yale Intellectual History University of Wisconsin, 197 4-75 of the West (New Haven and London, Yale Fellow, National Humanities Center, 1981 -82 University Press, 1997), xiii, 386 pp. Second Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, fall term 1982 printing, 1998. Paperback edition, 1999. Italian Visiting Scholar, Weston School of Theology, fall term translation: La cultura de/ medioevo (400-1400), 1982 trans. Elisabetta Gallo, le vie della civitta Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for (Bologna, Societa editrice ii Mulino, 2001), 595 Advanced Study, 1986-87 pp. Fellow, Medieval Academy of America, 1988- John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 1989-90 Visiting Fellow, Yale University, 1989-90, 2001 - Wilbur Cross Medal, Yale Graduate School Alumni Association , 1993 NEH Summer Seminar, "Late Antique and Medieval Conceptions of Heaven," University of California, Santa Barbara, 1993 Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1994-95 Rockefeller Foundation Writing Residency, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, 13 June-13 July, 1995 Haskins Medal, Medieval Academy of America, 1998 for Peter Lombard (Leiden, 1994) Travel Grant, American Philosophical Society, 1998 Gilson Lecturer, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 2000 Marianist Award , University of Dayton, 2000
Publications
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Essays Published Separately: "Seneca's Apocolocyntosis as a Possible Ssource for Remapping Scholasticism. The Etienne Gilson Series. Erasmus' Julius Exclusus." Renaissance 21 (Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Quarterly, 29 (Autum 1976): 361-68. Studies, 2000), 21 pp. "Cicero's De Officiis and Machiavelli's Prince.· Catholic and Intellectual: Conjunction or Disjunction? Sixteenth-Century Journal, 9(Winter1978): 81- Marianist Award Lecture (Dayton, University of 93. Reprinted in Great Political Thinkers: Dayton, 2000), 22 pp. Machiavelli, ed. John Dunn and Ian Harris (Aldershot, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Articles and Chapters in Composite Publications: 1997), 2: 205-17. "The Mime of God: Vives on the Nature of Man," "St. Augustine's Rhetoric of Silence Revisited," Journal of the History of Ideas, 23 (January Augustinian Studies, 9 (1978): 15-24. 1962): 3-20. Reprinted in Race, Gender and "Pauline Theology and Stoic Philosophy: An Historical Class: Early Modem Ideas of Humanity, ed . Study," Journal of the American Academy of Maryanne Cline Horowitz (Rochester, University Religion, 47, Supplement (March 1979): B 1-21. of Rochester Press, 1992), pp. 321-38. "The Stoic Hypothetical Syllogisms and Their Trans "A Twelfth-Century Problem," Apollo, 87, m.s. 77 (July mission in the Latin West in the Early Middle 1968): 36-41. Ages," Res Publica Utterarum, 2 (1979): 19-26. "Eleventh-Century Grammar in the Thought of St. "Three Notes on the Relationship Between Writing and Anselm," Arts liberaux et philosophie, Actes du Teaching History," The History Teacher, 13 1vme congres international de philosophie (August 1980): 543-60 (with Harold D. Woodman medievale, Montreal, 27 aoOt-2 septembre 1967 and Mildred Alpern). (MontreaVParis, lnstitut d'Etudes Medievales/J. "Historical Writing Then and Now: Against Exegesis," Vrin, 1969), pp. 785-95. Book Forum, 5 (1980): 270-78. "The Idea of Liberty in Machiavelli," Journal of the "Cosmetic Theology: The Transformation of a Stoic History ofldeas, 32 (July 1971): 323-50. Theme," Assays, 1 (1981): 3-14. Reprinted in Renaissance Essays, 2, ed. William "John the Scot's Christology and Soteriology in J. Connell, Library of the History of Ideas, 1O Relation to His Greek Sources," Downside (Rochester, University of Rochester Press, Review, 100(April1982}: 138-51. 1993), pp. 180-207; Great Political Thinkers: "The Stoic Theory of Verbal Signification and the Machiavelli, ed. John Dunn and Ian Harris Problem of Lies and False Statements from (Aldershot, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Antiquity to St. Anselm,· Archeo/ogie du signe, 1997), 2: 559-86. ed. Lucie Brind'Amour and Eugene Vance "Peter of Bruys, Henry of Lausanne, and the Fa9ade of (Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval St-Gilles," Traditio, 28 (1972): 451-60. Studies, 1983), pp. 17-43. "The Roman Law of Persons and Roman History: A "St. Anselm's Philosophy of Language Reconsidered," Case for an Interdisciplinary Approach," Anselm Studies, 1, ed. Gillian R. Evans (London, American Journal of Jurisprudence, 19 (1974): Kraus International, 1983), pp. 113-23. 112-27. "Carolingian Debates over Nihil and Tenebrae: A Study "Medieval Allegory: A Historiographical Consideration," in Theological Method," Speculum, 59 (October Clio, 4 (June 1975): 341-56. Reprinted in Dante: 1984): 757-95. The Critical Complex, ed. Richard Lansing (New "Teaching and Leaming Theology in Medieval Paris," York, Routledge, 2003), 4: 135-49. Schools of Thought in the Christian Tradition, "St. Thomas Aquinas in Historical Perspective: The ed. Patrick Henry (Philadelphia, Fortress Press, Modem Period," Church History, 44 (December 1984), pp. 106-24. 1975): 433-49. "Another Look at the School of Laon," Archives "Avicenna's Theory of Efficient Causation and its d'histoire doctrinale et litteraire du moyen age, 53 Influence on St. Thomas Aquinas," Tommaso (1986): 7-22. d'Aquino nel suo settimo centenario. Atti del "Gilbert, the Early Porretans, and Peter Lombard: congresso internazionale, Roma-Napoli, 17-24 Semantics and Theology," Gilbert de Poitiers et aprile 1974, I: Tommaso d'Aquino nella storia de/ ses contemporaines: Aux origines de la logica pensiero (Napoli, Edizioni Domenicane ltaliane, modemorum, ed. Jean Jolivet and Alain de 1975), pp. 296-306. Libera (Napoli, Bibliopolis, 1987), pp. 229-50.
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"Systematic Theology and Theological Renewal in the "Peter Lombard as an Exegete of St. Paul,· Ad litteram: Twelfth Century," Journal of Medieval and Authoritative Texts and Their Medieval Readers, Renaissance Studies, 18 (Fall 1988): 135-56. ed . Mark 0. Jordan and Kent Emery, Jr. (Notre "Augustine's Use and Abuse of Tyconius," A Conflict of Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, 1992), Christian Henneneutics in Roman Africa: pp. 71-92. Tyconius and Augustine, ed. Wilhelm Wuellner "Habitus Revisited: A Reply to Cary Nederman,· (Berkeley, Center for Hermeneutical Studies, Traditio, 48 (1993): 77-92. 1989), pp. 42-48. "Intellectual History," The Past and Future of Medieval "Early Porretan Theology," Recherches de theologie Studies, ed. John Van Engen (Notre Dame, Uni ancienne et medievale, 46 (1989): 58-79. versity of Notre Dame Press. 1994), pp. 190-203. "Cicero, Ambrose, and Stoic Ethics: Transmission or "From the Sentence Collection to the Sentence Com Transformation?" The Classics in the Middle mentary and the Summa: Parisian Scholastic Ages, ed. Aldo S. Bernardo and Saul Levin, Theology, 1130-1215," Manuels, programmes de Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, cours et techniques d'enseignement dans /es 69 (Binghamton, SUNY Press, 1990), pp. 95- universites medievales, ed. Jacqueline Hamesse 112. (Louvain-la-Neuve, lnstitut d'Etudes Medievales, "Mathematics, the Monad, and John the Scot's 1994), pp. 9-29. Conception of Nihil," Knowledge and the "The Development of Lombardian Theology, 1160- Sciences in Medieval Philosophy, Proceedings of 1215," Centres ofLeaming and Location in Pre the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Modem Europe and the Near East, ed. Jan Philosophy, Helsinki, 24-29August1987 Willem Drijvers and Alasdair A. MacDonald (Helsinki, Publications of the Luther-Agricola (Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1995), pp. 207-16. Society, 1990), 2: 455-67. "Medieval Europe: Church and Intellectual History," "Quae hodie locum non habent: Scholastic Theologians American Historical Association Guide to Reflect on Their Authorities," Proceedings of the Historical Literature, 3rd ed., ed. Mary Beth PMR Conference, 15, ed. Phillip Pulsiano Norton and Pamela Gerardi (New York, Oxford (Villanova, Augustinian Historical Institute, 1991), University Press, 1995), 1: 621-24, 675-703 pp. 1-17. (Section editor). "The Neoplatonic Tradition: The Contribution of Marius "Early Scholastic Angelology," Recherches de theologie Victorinus, • The Neoplatonic Tradition: Jewish, ancienne et mMievale, 62 (1995): 80-109. Christian and Islamic Themes, ed. Arjo "Christological Nihilianism in the Second HaH of the Vanderjagt and Detlev Pazold (Koln, Jurgen Twelfth Century," Recherches de theologie Dinter, 1991), pp. 57-74. ancienne et medievale, 63 (1996): 136-45. "From sacra pagina to theologia: Peter Lombard as an a The Virtuous Pagan: Dante and the Christian Exegete of Romans," Medieval Perspectives, 6 Tradition," The Unbounded Community: Papers (1991): 1-19. in Christian Ecumenism in Honor of Jaros/av "Die Neoplatoonse traditie: Die bijdrage van Marius Pelikan, ed. Willam Caferro and Duncan G. Victorinus," Philosophen in actie, ed. Theo A.F. Fisher (New York, Garland, 1996), pp. 43-91 . Kuipers (Delft, Eburon, 1992), pp. 223-39 (trans. "The Sentence Collection and the Education of Lodi Nauta). Professional Theologians in the Twelfth Century," "Peter Lombard and Abelard: The Opinio Nominalium The Intellectual Climate of the Early University. and Divine Transcendence," Vivarium, 30 (May Essays in Honor of Otto Griindler, ed. Nancy van 1992): 139-56. Deusen, Studies in Medieval Culture, 39 "Psalterium Scholasticorum: Peter Lombard and the (Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, Development of Scholastic Psalms Exegesis," 1997), pp. 1-26. Speculum, 67 (July 1992): 531-48. Reprinted in "Peter Lombard," Routledge Dictionary of Philosophy, Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism, 72 ed. Edward Craig (London, Routledge, 1998), 5: (2005). 821-22. "Stoicism and the New Testament: An Essay in "Machiavelli's Art of War. A Reconsideration,• Historiography,· Aufstieg und Niedergang der Renaissance Quarterly, 51 (Winter 1998): 1151- romischen Welt, ed. Wolfgang Hasse (Berlin, 68. Reprinted in De Re Militari: The Society for Walter de Gruyter, 1992), II: 26: 1, pp. 334-79. Military History, 2003 (www.deremilitari@org).
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"Re-envisioning the Middle Ages: A View from Intellec "Authority and Interpretation in Scholastic Theology," tual History," The Future of the Middle Ages and Religious Identity and the Problem of Historical the Renaissance: Problems, Trends, and Oppor Foundation: The Foundational Character of tunities for Research, ed. Roger Dahood, Authoritative Sources in the History of Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renais Christianity and Judaism, Judith Frishman et al. sance, 2 (Turnhout, Brepols, 1998), pp. 19-26. (Leiden, Brill, 2004), pp. 369-86. "Ex utroque et in utroque: Promissa mundo gaudia, "When Does the Middle Ages End?: Reflections of An electrum, and the Sequence," The Place of the Intellectual Historian," Schooling and Society: Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in Ages, ed . Nancy van Deusen (Binghamton, the Western Middle Ages, ed . Aslasdair A. SUNY Press, 1999), pp. 105-39 (with Nancy van MacDonald and Michael W. Twomey (Leuven, Deusen). Peeters, 2004), pp. 213-23. "Peter Lombard," Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation, Also some 60 reviews in scholarly journals. ed. John H. Hayes (Nashville, Abingdon, 1999), 2: 273-74. Activities as a Consultant and Referee: "Republicanism, Religion, and Machiavelli's Journal of the History of Ideas, Contributing Editor, Savonarolan Moment," Journal of the History of 1985-90; Editorial Board Member, 1989-; Board Ideas 60(October1999): 597-616. of Directors, 1998 -; Forkosch Book Prize "Introduction" Medieval Scholarship: Biographical Commettee, 1995-98 Studies on the Formation of a Discipline, vol. 3: Editorial Board Member, Assays, 1979-96 Philosophy and the Arts, ed. Helen Damico (New Editorial Board Member, American Historical Review, York, Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000), pp. 3-12. 1991-94 "Peter Lombard," The Medieval Theologians, ed . G.R. Editorial Board Member, Brill's Studies in Intellectual Evans (Oxford, Blackwell, 2001), pp. 168-83. History, 1986- "Peter Lombard and Philosophy," Issues in Medieval Editorial Advisory Board Member, Dallas Library of Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Richard C. Medieval Latin Text-Translations, 1999- Dales, ed. Nancy van Deusen, Wissenshaftliche Editorial consultant and referee: Abhandlungen, 62: 2 (Ottawa, The Institute of W.W. Norton & Company, 1973; Sixteenth Mediaeval Music, 2001), pp. 121-29. Century Journal, 1975; John Wiley & Sons, 1981; "Why the Portiana?: Reflections on the Milanese Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Basilica Crisis of 386," Journal of Early Christian Renaissance Society, 1983; State University of Studies 10 (2002): 361-72. New York Press, 1983, 1989, 1990; University "'Discipline' and 'Science' in Peter Lombard," "Scientia" Presses of Florida, 1986; Hackett Publishers, und "disciplina": Wissenstheorie und 1987, 1991; University of California Press, 1988; Wissenschaftspraxis im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert, University of Chicago Press, 1988; Princeton ed. Rainer Berndt, Mathias Lutz-Bachmann, and University Press, 1988, 1989, 1996, 1997, 1998; Ralf M.W. Stammberger (Berlin, Akademie Yale University Press, 1997, 1998; Journal of Verlag, 2002), pp. 175-86. Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1988; "Interpretation and Authority in Early Scholasticism," On Traditio, 1989; Viator, 1989, 1998; Speculum, Interpretation: Studies in Culture, Law, and the 1990, 2001; University of Notre Dame Press, Sacred, ed. Andrew D. Weiner and Leonard V. 1991 , 1992; Columbia University Press, 1992; Kaplan= Graven Images 5 (2002): 215-21. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, 1997; "Haskins' Renaissance Seventy Years Later: Beyond Journal of Early Christian Studies, 1994, 2001, Anti-Burckhardtianism," Hankins Society Journal 2002; University of Illinois Press, 1995; Journal of 11 (1998 [2003]): 1-15. Religion, 1996; Church History, 1998; Renais "Die Bedeutung der Vater tor das Kirchenverstandnis sance Quarterly, 1998, 1999, 2000; Blackwell's, des Petrus Lombardus," Vater der Kirche: 1998; Oxford University Press, 1998, 2000, 2004; Ekklesiales Denken von den Anfangen bis in die Liturgical Press, 1999; Journal of the History of Neuzeit. Festschrift Josef Sieben SJ zum 70. Philosophy, 2001; Cambridge University Press, Geburstag, ed. Johannes Arnold et al. 2002, 2005; Brepols, 2003; E.J. Brill, 2003; (Paderborn, Ferdinand Schoningh, 2004), pp. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 669-86 (trans. Ralf M. W. Stammberger). Co-Editor, Garland Medieval Casebooks, 1998 - .
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Served as a member of vis::ing committees, as an HISTORY OF THE ~TANABE LECTURES external evaluator, external referee for many colleges and universities (over 30 colleges and universities); Although this lecture sen ~ Has established in 2002, we Served as a referee for various scholarly organizations. had had a number of distinguished scholars who delivered Professional Associations and Activities: their addresses before the Business Meetings of the Served as a member of various committees for: Society in preceding years. They were sometimes American Historical Association; Medieval Academy of referred to as the "Business Meeting Lectures." Listed America; Midwest Medieval Conference; Medieval below are both the "Business Meeting Lectures" and the Association of Midwest; Renaissance Society of "M. Watanabe Lectures." America; Central Renaissance Conference; American Names and Titles of the Previous Speakers Association of University Professors; Societe Internationale pour l'Etude de Philosophie Medievale; May 6, 1995: Prof. Donald Duclow: "Nicholas of Cusa's International Society for the Classical Tradition; Ohio Dialogue on World Religions: A Student Humanities Council. Response Approach." (Newsletter, XII, 1, 1995, pp. 29-32). May 10, 1996: Prof. Antony Black: "Genres of Political Thought on Europe and the Middle East· AMERICAN CUSANUS SOCIETY (Newsletter, XIII, 1, 1996, p. 2). BUSINESS MEETING 1997: No lecture. May 8, 1998: Prof. Heiko A. Oberman: "Some Notes on Date: Thursday, May 5, 2005 the Mystery of the Fifteenth Century: Time: 6:00 p.m. - Reflections on the End of the Beginning." Place: Valley 111, Stinson Lounge (Newsletter, XV, 1-2. 1998, p. 2). May 7, 1999: Prof. Charles Lohr: "What I Have Learned About Medieval Philosophy through the For further information on the 40th International Study of Ramon Lull." (Newsletter, XVI , 1. Congress on Medieval Studies, contact: 1999, p. 5). May 4, 2000: Prof. Donald R. Kelley: "The Hunt for Prof. Paul E. Szannach, Director Wisdom (De Venatione Sapientiae)." Medieval Institute, 104E Walwood Hall (Newsletter, XII, 1, p. 2). Western Michigan University May 3, 2001: Prof. Francis Oakley: "KINGSHIP: The 1903 W. Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, Ml 49008-5432 History and Significance of an Idea." Phone: 269-387-8745 FAX: 269-387-8750 (Newsletter, XIII, 1, pp. 52-57). e-mail: [email protected] May 2, 2002: A Tribute to Heiko A. Oberman (1930-2001) (n.b.: Only one "s" in the address) (Newsletter, XIX, 1, p. 1). WWW: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress Speakers: Gerald Christianson, Thomas M. lzbicki. Morimichi Watanabe and S Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 6 American Cusanus Society Newsletter VISIT THE AMERICAN CUSANUS Mr. Shiro Abe SOCIETY WEB SITE! Prof. Ellen L. Babinsky Prof. Albert R. Baca http ://library.jhu .edu/departments/rsc/izbicki/cusa nus.html Prof. Christopher M. Bellitto Prof. James A. Biechler Dr. Thomas M. lzbicki, our Special Advisor, is also our Prof. H. Lawrence Bond computer expert. He has been disseminating biblio Prof. Elizabeth Brient graphical and other useful information on Cusanus studies through his media. He has also designed the Society's Prof. Charles H. Cannan web site. Please visit it and take advantage of information Prof. Peter J. Casarella available there! Prof. Gerald Christianson Prof. William J. Courtenay Prof. Donald F. Duclow Prof. Louis Dupre Prof. Dr. Walter Andreas Euler Mr. Ken A. Grant Prof. Jeremiah Hackett Prof. Karsten Harries Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften Prof. Jasper Hopkins Prof. Vittorio H0sle Prof. L. F. Hundersmarck Dr. Thomas M. lzbicki Prof. Stephen E. Leahy Prof. Ian C, Levy Prof. Dr. Charles Lohr PhDr. Jozef Matula Prof. Bernard McGinn Prof. Clyde Lee Miller Prof. Thomas E. Morrissey Prof. Cary J. Nedennan Prof. Jean-Marie Nicolle Prof. Louis B. Pascoe, S.J. Dr. Cynthia M. Pyle Profs. George S. & Louise B. Robbert Dr. Hans Gerhard Senger Dr. Takashi Shogimen Prof. Michael A. Soupios Prof. Joachim W. Stieber Prof. Phillip H. Stump Prof. Donald D. Sullivan Rev. Kristine Suna-Koro CONTRIBUTORS Prof. Brian Tierney M. Hubert Vallet The American Cusanus Society acknowledges the Prof. Morimichi Watanabe following generous contributors from January, 2004 to Tsugumichi Watanabe, Esq. December 31, 2004. Thank you very much! Prof. Pauline M. Watts Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 7 American Cusanus Societv,, Newsletter THE GEITYSBURG cot FERENCE October 8·10, 200' Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary Gettysburg, PA Historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with its beautiful rural Schmucker (Giuseppe Alberigo, "The Conciliar Church," setting and color-filled autumn days was the site of a introduced and read in his absence by Alberto Menoni), conference once again sponsored by the International and Arthur Carl Piepkom (Brian Tierney, "Reflections on Seminar on Pre-Reformation Theology of Gettysburg Foundations of the Conciliar Theoryj . The Conference Lutheran Seminary and the American Cusanus Society was made possible, in part, by a generous grant from the from October 8to10, 2004. This was the ninth in a series Piepkom Fund, chaired by Father Richard John Neuhaus. that began nearly 20 years ago and has led to a number of publications. With one exception - the celebration of In addition, special emphasis was given to balancing the sixth centenary of Nicholas of Cusa at the Cathoiic presentations by established scholars with papers from University of America in 2001 - all were held in younger scholars, or scholars who had not participated Gettysburg. earlier. This helped uncover a number of new friends in the fields of conciliar and Cusan studies from around the The topic, "Reform and Obedience: The Authority of world. These more formal presentations were followed by Church, Council and Pope from the Great Schism to the working sessions that discussed fresh translations of Council of Trent," proved to be of exceptional relevance to works by Aeneas and Cusanus (most translated by current issues in church and society, but had a more Thomas M. lzbicki and appearing in English for the first personal significance as well. It celebrated the 50th time). This creative mix encouraged a high degree of anniversary of Brian Tierney's epoch-making work, participation and a broad spectrum of opinion and insights. Foundations of the Conciliar Theory (1955). Participants considered the contributions of "the Tierney generation· to Two ecumenical services (one with commemorations of the issue of how the Great Schism and the conciliar crisis departed friends in the Society; the other a eucharist using caused theologians, jurists and humanists to rethink the Taize liturgy with a sermon by Cusanus) were accepted concepts of church government, to balance the accompanied for the first time this year by an earty need for reform with the need to preserve order in the Sunday Mass led by Father Louis Pascoe, S.J. A visible institution and reaffirm its legitimacy. battlefield tour instructed participants in the fine art of marching into battle, especially when modem In particular conference members asked how Nicholas of transportation failed to arrive on time, and a candellight Gusa and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II) banquet allowed for relaxation and entertainment. contributed to the debate. Both men at first embraced the Council of Basel, and for it Cusanus prepared the "most David McGonagle of Catholic University of America Press mature" (Tierney) of all conciliar theories, The Catholic also attended and discussed the possibility of a book Concordance, in which he balanced consent with related to the conference theme, The Church, Councils, hierarchy and embraced wide-spread reform. Yet both and Reform, which, if accepted by the Press, will appear Nicholas and Aeneas left Basel and had to rethink their in early 2007. Tentative plans are also under way for a ideas in relation to their concepts of the church, while still tenth conference in October, 2006. preserving an interest in reform. Gerald Christianson The Conference committee (Peter Casarella, Christopher Bellitto, Emily O'Brien, Thomas lzbicki, and Gerald [It was through the combined, tremendous efforts of the Christianson) agreed that the conference exceeded members of the Conference committee, Gerald expectations. It brought together the largest attendance Christianson (chair), Thomas M. lzbicki, Peter J. thus far, over forty registrants from the greatest variety of Casarella, Christopher M. Bellitto and Emily O'Brien, that nations, including France, Poland, Belgium, Germany, th ':'. conference on "Reform and Obedience" held in Italy and Canada. A select number of plenary lectures October was, by common consensus, a tremendous were given in memory of F. Edward Cranz (Francis success. The number of memos distributed and Oakley, "The Conciliar Heritage and the Politics of discussed among the committee members was, to say the Oblivion"), the Seminary's founder, Samuel Simon least, tremendous. Many distinguished speakers, both Volume .XXI, Number 2 December 2004 8 American Cusanus Society Newsletter American and foreign, made it a scholarly, stimulating and even enjoyable meeting to attend. We regret very much FOUNDATIONS or THE that Prof. Giovanni Alberigo of the University of Bologna, CONCILIAR THEORY one of the leading scholars in the field of conciliar studies, was not able to participate in the conference because of Tix C""1ri;.uric•" tf tbr 1\frJ:fNI Cl/llMli_;r; health reasons. We thank Prof. Dr. Alberto Belloni , Vice Y"m Gr4ti4'l '·' rb,· Gr CAMllRll>GE AT TllE UNIVERSITY PllH~ Religion, law, and the growth of constitutional thought 1150-1650 Gerald Christianson llRIA!' Tl.E.RSF.Y ··-· ------~-- -· CAMRIUOGF. t:NJVEllSJTY !'RF.SS <.~mmdi:~ l.ondun ?-:cw Yori<. NC'!'' R Brian Tierney 1982 (Both photos courtesy of Friedrich Pukelsheim) Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 9 American Cusanus Society Newsletter REFORM AND OBEDIENCE: The Authority of Church, Council, and Pope from the Great Schism to the Council of Trent Anticipating the 50th Anniversary of Brian Tierney's Saturday, October 9 7:30 a.m. Breakfast Foundations of the Conciliar Theory 8:30 a.m. Ecumenical Service of Prayer with Chapel CommemoraUons Philip Krey, Sponsored by Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary International Seminar on Pre-Reformation Theology, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary 9:00a.m. Session I Cusanus and Library Lecture Conciliarism Room in cooperation with Chair: Thomas Monissey, State Univerity The American Cusanus Society of New YOIK, Fredonia "The Electoral System of Nicholas of Cusa' Thursday, October 7 (for early arrivals) Friedrich Pukelsheim, Augsburg University 5:30 p.m . Social hour for early anivals Singmaster Center (Gennany) 7:15 p.m. Supper (optional) Appalachian Brewing Company Working session led by Donald Duciow, Gwynedd-Mercy College Friday, October 8 On Nicholas of Cusa, Against the Amadeists; 8:00-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast Sing master Aeneas Sytvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), 10:30-11 :30a.m. Brief walk on historic Meet at Singmaster The Dialogue concerning Conciliar Matters Seminary Ridge Center 10:30a.m. Coffee 1:00 p.m. Registration Beekman Commons, 11:00 a.m. Session II The Conciliar Church Library Lecture Valentine Hall Room Refreshments in adjoining Coffee Shop Chair. Louis Pascoe, SJ, Fordham University 3:00 p.m. Public Lecture I Councils and the The Samuel Simon Schmucker Lecture: Constitutional Heritage "Chiesa conciliare!The Conciliar Church' Valentine Auditorium Giuseppe Alberigo, University of Bologna Chair: Dean Robin Steinke, (in absentia) Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary Response: Peter Casarella, Catholic University The F. Edward Cranz Lecture: of America "The Conciliar Heritage and the Politics of Oblivion' 12:15 p.m. Lunch Francis Oakley, Williams College 1:30p.m. Session Ill The Conciliar Image 3:45p.m. Refreshments Chair. Joachim Stieber, Smith College 4:00 p.m. Public bcture 11 Councils in the Catholic "Pius II and the Emerging Historiography and Protestant Traditions of the Councils' Valentine Auditorium Emily O'Brien, Harvard University Chair: Gerald Christianson, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary Working Session, led by Thomas lzbicki, "Lessons from Ancient Christianity: Johns Hopkins University Participation in the Early Church' On Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), Christopher M. Bellito, Kean University Letter on the Coronation of Felix V (1440); Commentary on the Proceedings of Basel (1450) "Conciliar Protestantism' (selection); Commentaries (selection) Gunther Gassmann, Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary and The World Council of Churches 2:45 p.m. Free time 5:15 p.m. Social Hour Singmaster Center Battlefield tours 6:15 p.m. Dinner Refectory General: Mr. Gary Ratay, Ba!Uefield Guide 7:45p.m. Public Lecture Ill Councils and Conciliar Theory Specialized: Colonel lzbick.i Bridges the Valentine Auditorium Hermeneutical Gap Chair. Morimichi Watanabe, Long Island University, and President, American Cusanus Society 5:30 p.m. Social Hour Singmaster Center The Arthur Carl Piepkom Lecture: Business meeting of the American Cusanus Society "Reflections on Foundations of the Conciliar Theory' Morimichi Watanabe, President Brian Tierney, Cornell University 7:00p.m. Candlelight Banquet Refectory 9:00p.m. Social Hour Singmaster Center Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 10 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Entertainment: "The Gospel Song Tradition' Dahmus, John Dept. of History, Stephen F. Austin American Song with Wayne Hill, baritone; State Univ., TX Timothy Braband , pianis t; Herman G. Decaluwe , Michiel University of Gent, Gent, Belgium Stuempfle, host Duclow, Donald Gwynedd-Mercy College, 9:00 p.m. Social Hour Philadelphia, PA Flanagin, D. Zach Religious Studies Dept., St. Mary's Sunday,October10 7:30 a.m. Breakfast College of California, Morga, CA 8:15 a.m. Ecumenical Service Chapel Gassman, Gunther Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, Presider: Gunther Gassmann Gettysburg, PA Homily: Nicholas cardinal Cusanus (a.k.a. Hallonsten, Gosta School of Theology & Religious Lawrence Hundersmark, Pace University) (Schedule of other services available) Studies, The Catholic Univ. of America, Washington, DC 9:15a.m. Session IV: Faith and Spirit in Council and Cusanus Halstead, John Ithaca, NY Chair: Clyde Lee Miller, State University Hudson, Nancy Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ of New York Hundersmarck, Lawrence Pace Univ., White Plains, NY 'The Holy Spirit and the Council of Basel" Hyland, William P. Humanities, St. Norbert College, Natasha Tlnteroff, The Sorbonne, Paris DePere, WI lzbicki, Thomas Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins 'The Concept of Faith in Sermon 21 ' Agnieszka Kijewska, catholic University Univ., Baltimore, MD of Lublin Kijewska, Agnieszka Catholic Univ. of Lublin, Lublin, Discussion of Nicholas of Cusa, Sermon 21: Poland Entering into the House Kirnon, William M. Herndon, VA Krey, Philip Lutheran Theological Seminary 10:30 a.m. Coffee at 11:00a.m. Session V: New Directions in Conciliar and Philadelphia, PA and Cusan Studies Lundell, William History Dept., Mount Allison Univ., Chair: Paul Sigmund, Princeton University Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada "Three Ways to Read the Decree Haec sancta' McGonagle, David J. The Catholic University of America Michie! Decaluwe, University of Gent Press, Washington, DC 'Conciliarism at the Local Level: Florence's Melloni, Alberto lstituto per la scienze religiose, Clerical Corporation in the Early Fifteenth Bologna, Italy Century." Miller, Clyde Lee Dept. of Phil., SUNY at Stony David S. Peterson, Washington and Lee Brook, Stony Brook, NY University 12:15 p.m. aose Morrissey, Thomas E. SUNY College at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY Departures begin at 12:15 p.m. Morrissey, Gerda Fredonia, NY 12:45 p.m. Lunch at 1776 Dobbin House Tavern (optional) Oakley, Francis C. Williams College, Williamstown, MA O'Brien, Emily Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA Pascoe, Louis B., S.J. Fordham University, Bronx, NY List of Participants Pavlac, Brian A. History Dept., Kings College, Bellitto, Christopher Kean Univ., History Dept. , Union, Wilkes Barre, PA NJ Peterson, David Washington and Lee University Brown, Harvey Dept. of Poli. Sci. , U. of Western Pukelsheim, Friedrich Inst. Math., Univ. Augsburg, Ontario, London, Canada Augsburg, Germany Casarella, Peter J. The Catholic Univ. of America, Sigmund, Paul E. Dept. of Politics, Princeton Univ., Washington, D.C. Princeton, NJ Christianson, Gerald Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, Steinke, Robin Dean, Gettysburg Lutheran Gettysburg, PA Seminary, Gettysburg, PA Stieber, Joachim Dept. of History, Smith College, Collinge, William J. Gettysburg, PA Corless, Roger J. Benicia, CA Northampton, MA Strobert, Nelson Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, Crump, Eric Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary, Gettysburg, PA Gettysburg, PA Tierney, Brian Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY Volume XX.I, Number 2 December 2004 11 ------ American Cusanus Society Newsletter Tierney, Helen Ithaca, NY proceedings froff the Gettysburg conference and related Tinterroff, Natacha The Sorbonne, Paris, France papers; he is alsc oreparing a volume of translations , Vallet, Hubert Belgium Nicholas of Gusa on the Church and Reform. G. Walker, Craig Redlands, CA Christianson and D. Crowner have received permission to Watanabe, Morimichi Long Island Univ., C.W. Post translate E. Meuthen's Nikolaus von Kues: Skizze einer Campus, Brookville, NY Biographie (7th edition). Watanabe, Kiyomi SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY The meeting adjourned at 6:15pm. REPORT ON THE BUSINESS MEETING Respectfully submitted, October 9, 2004 at 5:30 pm The meeting began at 5:20pm, when the Society's THE AMERICAN CUSANUS SOCIETY'S President, M. Watanabe asked for a moment of silence in MEETING AT THE RENAISSANCE memory of Giovanni Santinello and Otto Grundler. He then extended the Society's welcome to the many SOCIETY OF AMERICA conference participants from abroad. The Minutes and CAMBRIDGE, UK Treasurer's Report from the May 6 Business Meeting were 7.9 APRIL, 2005 approved as published in the Newsletter(July, 2004). M. Watanabe reported receipt of the first royalties check for Friday, April 8, 2005. 9:00-10:30 A.M. Introducing Nicholas of Gusa; as Paulist Press' Academic Room: Clare College, Neild Room Editor and the book's co-editor, C. Bellitto arranged for the Panel Title: Platonic Influences in Nicholas of Cusa and Society to receive royalties. M. Watanabe also noted Long His Contemporaries Island University's increased support of his work on behalf Sponsor: The American Cusanus Society of the Society; in addition to release time, he has received Organizer: Thomas M. lzbicki, The Johns Hopkins a stipend. Members unanimously approved L. Miller's University motion that the Secretary write a letter thanking the Chair: Arjo J. Vanderjagt. University of Groningen University for this new financial support. Presenter: Charles H. Cannan. State University of New York, Buffalo For Kalamazoo in 2005, the Society will sponsor two Paper Title: Alberti and Gusa: Modes of Renaissance sessions: one organized by P. Casarella on Cusanus and Vision Gerson, and the other honoring Raymond Klibansky's Abstract: Alberti's treatise On Painting is credited with 1001h birthday. Marcia Colish has agreed to deliver the favoring naturalistic determinism in art. This Morimichi Watanabe Lecture. paper relates Alberti's concept of space to a Platonic Christian tradition of vision with P. Casarella represented the Society at the Cusanus visual recognition of nature as a starting conference in Buenos Aires in June. This October there point for higher perceptions. Alberti's theory are conferences relevant to Cusanus studies in Reichnau of perspectival vision is similar to what and Florence, as well as the Cusanus-Gesellschaft Nicholas of Cusa did in De visione dei and symposium in Trier. T. lzbicki will be organizing three De possest. Cusa integrated temporal sessions on Cusanus for the Renaissance Society's knowledge and contemplation of things meeting in Cambridge in spring, 2005. eternal, knowledge of the wortd revealing more about God. Further, Alberti's P. Casarella reported that the publication board of the emblematic "Winged Eye· adds to our Catholic University of America Press has approved understanding of his notion of vision and is publication of the proceedings from the Society's 2001 epistemologically dose to Cusa's conference. T. lzbicki discussed publishing the development of the ascent of sight in De Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 12 American Cusanus Society Newsletter apice theoriae. Alberti, like Gusa, was Friday, April 8, 2005. 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M. seeking God through exploration of Room: Queens ' College, Bowett Room experience in this world , a task that Panel Title: The Reception of Nicholas of Cusa in the necessitates a cooperative relationship Renaissance between sight of the eyes and of the mind. Sponsor: The American Cusanus Society Organizer: Thomas M. lzbicki. Johns Hopkins Presenter: Mathieu van der Meer. Rijks Universiteit University Groningen Chair: John Monfasani. State UnWersity of New Paper Title: Nicholas of Gusa ad fontes : The Impact of York, Albany Trebizond's Translation of Plato's Presenter: Thomas M. lzbicki, Johns Hopikns Parmenides on Nicholas of Cusa's Later University Philosophy. Paper Title: The Reception of Nicholas of Cusa in Tudor Abstract: Around 1459, George of Trebizond finished and Stuart England. his translation of Plato's Parmenides on the Abstract: The reception of Cusanus in England mosUy insistence of Nicholas of Cusa. This work has been studied through English transla became available to the Latin West for the tions. This paper uses database searches to first time since antiquity. Cusanus was the establish the use of Cusanus' texts, both first to use it. Most of his knowledge of Plato political and speculative, by Tudor and had been mediated by Proclus's com Stuart intellectuals. Figures as different as mentary on Plato's Paramenides. Thanks to John Jewel and John Dee are found citing Trebizond's translation, Cusanus was able to "Cardinal Cusanus." In some cases, the differentiate between Proclus's thinking and exact edition employed that of Jacques Plato's, as is demonstrated in De non aliud Lefevre d'Etaples, can be identified. and De venatione sapientiae. This paper shows that, in his last years, Nicholas shifted Presenter: Paul Richard Blum, Loyola College accents in his philosophy. We shall see if Paper Title: Nicholas of Cusa in Petrus Bungus's there is a correlation between Nicholas of Numerorum Mysteria (1599). Cusa's posse philosophy in these years and Abstract: In his Numerorum Mysteria, Petrus Bungus his reading of Plato's Parmenides. Cusanus' (Pietro Bongo, d. 1601) expressly intended glosses in the manuscript of Trebizond's to prove the compatibility of Pythagorean translation will lend support in this matter. numerology with Christian doctrine. This work, contemporary with Giordano Bruno Presenter: Daniel P. O'Connell. Universitat Trier, and John Dee, has the characteristics of lnstitut filr Cusanus-Forschung. late-Renaissance syncretism and pre Paper Title: The Influence of Proclus upon Cusa's Baroque encyclopedism. The author Christology in De docta ignorantia. despised Scholastic rationalizing and Abstract: This paper addresses Nicholas of Gusa's believed in the power of authorities on the interpretation of the incarnation in De docta mystic and symbolic meaning of numbers. ignorantia. Its tasks are three: first, to show Nicholas Cusanus plays an important role as what the notion of "middle kinds" is in a source, especially for the first four cardinal Cusanus's theology of the incarnation and numbers. One aspect is surprising: his where it originated in the writings of Produs sermons are far more often quoted than De (esp. his Stoicheiosis Theologike): second, docta ignorantia or texts. Bungus's to show how the notion of "middle kinds" can appropriation of Cusanus not only helps help to resolve the objection of Jasper understatnding of his syncretistic approach Hopkins that Cusanus's explanation of the to theology and philosophy; it also sheds incarnation is flawed: third , I will show that light on Cusanus's philosophical theology as Cusanus had read Proclus when he wrote it was perceived in the later Renaissance. book 3 of De docta ignorantia. In light of this reading the current notions of the influence Presenter: Jacob Vance, The Johns Hopkins University of Proclus on Cusanus in his early works Paper ntle: Cusanus in Sixteen Century French need to be reconsidered. Christian Humanism Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 13 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Abstract: This talk examines a set cif '.'lhilosophical and THE TOWN AND GOWN LECTURE 2005 theological questions for :h French The L .;ion ' >r Late Medieval Catholic Reformers (Lef:- d'Etaples, an: ~ eforr. ation Studies Guillaume Bri90net, and ~· 1arles de Bovelles The University of Arizona in particular) turned to Nicholas of Cusa's works between 1494-1540. It considers in "A Matter of Matter: Two Cases of Blood Cult which of Cusa 's works they sought their in Fifteenth-Century Germany" answers, and how their questions led them by to adopt or reject various theses set forth in CAROLINE WALKER BYNUM those texts. The purpose is to consider Professor of Western Eur:)pean Middle Ages which aspects of their dialogue with Cusa's Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton thought can be said to have been shaped by the historical and cultural circumstances of [Prof. Bynum will discuss two very different pilgrimage the French Prereform Movement. sites in fifteenth-century northern Germany: the host miracle at Wilsnack (1383) and the anti-Jewish host Saturday, April 9, 2005. 2:00 -3:30 P.M. desecration libel of Sternberg (1492).] Room: Sigwick Avenue, Lecture Block #8 Panel Title: Reading Cusanus with Clyde Lee Miller. 0000000 Sponsor: The American Cusanus Society Organizer and Chair: Thomas lzbicki, The Johns INTERNATIONALES Hopkins University Discussants: Clyde Lee Miller, State University of New WISSENSCHAFTLICHES York, Stony Brook CUSANUS-DOPPEL-SYMPOSION Hugh Lawrence Bond, Appalachian State Die Sermones des Nikolaus von Kues University Symposions-Teil I Peter J. Casarella, The Catholic University 2004 {Do.21-Sa.23.10) of America Panel Abstract: Clyde Lee Miller's recent book Reading Thema: Merkmale der cusanischen Predigten und ihre Cusanus offers a fresh look at Nicholas of Stellung innerhalb der mittelalterlichen Predigtkultur Gusa, particularly his use of metaphor and dialectic. Miller provides critical reading of · Tagungsort: Theologische Fakultat Trier, Promotionsaula, six major speculative works by Cusanus: Jesuitenstr. 13 Docta ignorantia (1440), De coniecturis Ferderer: Cusanus-Gesellsch"'ft, (1442-43) , ldiota de mente (1450), De Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, visione Dei (1453), De Ii non a/iud (1461), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and De venatione sapientiae (1463) . All of these readings underline Neoplatonic elements in Cusanus's thought, and not the Scholastic or even Kantian approaches sometimes taken to them. Two Cusanus scholars will offer their assessments of the book. The author will respond . OTHER SOCIETIES' MEETINGS, PAST AND FUTURE 0000000 Geburtshaus des Nikolaus von Kues Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 14 American Cusanus Society Newsletter PROGRAMM Mi., 06.10. 9.00 Prof. Dr. Thomas PrDgl (Notre Dame, IN) n-...... --e. :a Obo6tt ~ Modelle konziliarer Kontroverstheologie : 1.. 10.00 h (u ) Sdzuug .i. r~ .\llh Koro>~"".t..51•raW...~illbtollli 7. t/.00 & \'we~ YOA libclr~ -' ~< ~ in d Di., 05.10. 19.30 Prof. Dr. Johannes Helmrath (Berlin)/ SchluBdiskussion Prof. Dr. Heribert Muller (Frankfurt a.M) Einruhrung in das Tagungsthema 0000000 20.00 Prof. Dr. Herfried Munkler (Benin) Konziliarismus und politische Theorie Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 15 American Cusanus Society Newsletter PROF. RAYMOND KLIBANSKY Will Celebrate his 100·,,·, Birthday This Year Prof. Raymond Klibansky, the pioneer of the modern codicum fidem edita. I. De docta ignorantia ediderunt Cusanus studies, will be 100 years old on October 15, 2005. Ernestus Hoffmann et Raymundus Klibansky; II. Apologia As noted above, we shall dedicate to him one of our sessions doct&e ignoranti&e edidit Raymundus Klibansky. Leipzig, at the American Cusanus Society meetings in Kalamazoo, Felix Meiner, 1932." Deutsche Litteraturzeitung. Dritte Folge, Michigan in May of this year. With the kind support of Dr. 4, 15 (9. April 1933): cols. 685-691 . Martin Thurner of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat and of the Grabmann-lnstitut in Munich, we are able to present below Groffier, Ethel and Michel Paradis, eds. The Notion of his discussion and description of the scholarly life and Tolerance and Human Rights. Essays in Honour of contributions of Prof. Klibansky during his long and illustrious Raymond Klibansky. Carlton University Press, 1991. career. [Distributed by Oxford University Press, Canada, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada.) xv, 174 pp. (Bibliography of Raymond It was in 1932, as is shown in the cover page of this issue, Klibansky, pp. 165-174.) that Ernst Hoffmann and Raymond Klibansky published Nicholas of Cusa's De docta ignorantia and Apologia doctae Klibansky, Raymond and H.J. Paton, eds. Philosophy & ignorantiae, thereby initiating the so-called Heidelberg edition History, essays presented to Emst Cassirer. Gloucester, of the Opera omnia of Nicholas of Gusa. It is memorable that Mass.: Peter Smith, 1975. xii, 363 pp. (Originally published in this important year of Prof. Klibansky's 1ooth birthday, the in 1963 by Harper &Row, New York.) Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaten, as is shown below, is to hold a special symposium to mark the completion Mussgnug, Dorothee. Die vertriebenen Heidelberger of the Opera omnia. Dozenten. Zur Geschichte der Ruprecht-Karfs-Universitat nach 1933. Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitatsver1ag, 1988. 300 pp. References SantineHo, Giovanni. "Cusano: Edizioni, Studi e lncontri nel Meiner, Felix. "Die Cusanus -Ausgabe," dated 18, Mai 1945. 1982," Studia Patavina - Rivista di Scienze religiose XXX, 1 (6-page memorandum given to the Editor by Herr Richard (1983): 77-85. Meiner.) Senger, Hans Gemard. "Die Nikolaus von Kues - Ausgabe Meiner, Richard. "Besprechung mit Herrn Prof. Klibansky in als Beispiel einer historisch-kritischen Edition," Zeitschrift tur Bemkastel-Kues am 12. August 1964." (1-page memo, dated philosophische Forschung 38, 1 (Januar-Marz 1984): 73-83. 18.8.64, also given to the Editor by Herr Richard Meiner.) Watanabe, Morimichi. "The Origins of Modem Cusanus Research in Germany and the Foundation of the Heidelberg Opera omnia," in M. Watanabe, Nicholas of Gusa in Search Beierwaltes, Werner. "Die Cusanus-Ausgabe. Nicolai de of God and Wisdom, ed. Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Gusa Opera Omnia. lussu et auctoritate Academiae lzbicki (Leiden, 1991), pp. 17-42; also published in M. Litterarum Heide/bergensis ad codicum fidem edita.," Watanabe, Concord and Reform: Nicholas of Gusa and Legal Jahrbuch der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften filr and Political Thought in the Fifteenth Century, ed. Thomas 1987(Heidelberg 1988): 101-106. M. lzbicki and Gerald Christianson (Aldershot, 2001), pp. 35- 58. Eckert, Willehad Paul. "Der Stand der Cusanus-Edition," Schweizer Rundschau 63, 7/8 (1964): 443-448. Gadarner, Hans-Georg. "Das Cusanus-Unternehrnen der Heidelberger Akadernie derWissenschaften," Ruperto Caro/a Mitteilungen 6, 15/16 (Dezember 1954): 78-79. Grabmann, Martin. "Nicolai de Cusa Opera omnia iussu et Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften auctoritate Academiae Utterarurn Heidelbergensis ad Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 16 American Cusanus Society Newsletter the cultural life of his time and he continuously reacts to and reflects on the historical and political development of the 2Qlh century. The following text briefly describes the most important stages of his life and work during which he has always kept his finger on the pulse of the century.2 Raymond Klibansky was born on 15October1905 in Paris. He was the son of a German vintner family of Jewish descent. Klibansky's ability to easily blend into various cultures was already put to the test in his ear1y teens. AJ. the outbreak of World War One in 1914, his family had to flee from Paris to Frankfurt. He went to school at the "Odenwaldschule" near Heidelberg. The school was famous for its positive attitude towards pedagogical reform. At the Odenwaldschule Klibansky went to the same class as Klaus Mann ( 1906-1949), the first son of Thomas Mann. In 1921 Klibansky began his studies of philosophy and philology at the University of Heidelberg. Back then the world of philosophy was dominated by the debate on the right stand on Kantian tradition between the Neokantian Heinrich Rickert Raymond Klibansky (1863-1936) and the existentialist philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883-1969). Klibansky took part in Jaspers' seminars, Raymond Klibansky where, among others, he met Golo Mann (1909-1994). What Klibansky particular1y liked about Jaspers was his A medievalist keeping his finger sophisticated way of leading philosophical dialogues. on the pulse of the century However, Jaspers' publications on the history of philosophy By that focus on medieval writers, were not meant to earn Martin Thurner Klibansky's unanimous assent. Being a critical historian Grabmann-lnstitut Klibansky regarded Jaspers' book on Nicolaus Cusanus that Universiat Munchen was published in 1962, as nothing but "monumental cotton" as he said literally in a conversation with Kurt Flasch.3 "I believe that Dr. Klibansky, even if he's still quite young, is one of the four or five greatest academics in the world of Klibansky's particular interest in medievalism already medieval philosophy." That is what no less a person than became apparent in the ear1y stages of his studies. The Etienne Gilson (1884-1978) said about his 27-year-old same is true of the specific interest of his research on the colleague Raymond Klibansky back in 1933.1 Middle Ages. In 1928 his doctoral study ended with the completion of his doctoral thesis on the School of Chartres. Astonishingly, not only is Gilson's statement confirmed by However, the political situation became increasingly worse Klibansky's personal development, but it should also be for Jewish academics and preventded him from publishing extended to a number of fields beyond the immediate context his dissertation. later on Klibansky wrote two essays in of medievalism. Klibansky's versatility regarding his scientific work and his eventful biography is unique among the great medievalists of the 2Qlh century. Klibansky always connects 2 As regards biographical information I refer to: Raymond his individual medievalist interests with actively taking part in Klibansky, Erinnerung an ein Jahrhundert, loc. cit In addition I refer to personal information from Mrs Professor Ethel Groffier Klibansky (Monlr8al), for which I want to express my deepest gratitude. 1 The statement was found in a letter of recommendation to the Academic Assistance Council, whose documents are today kept 3 Quoted from: Kurt Flasch, Laudatio auf den Preistrager at the Bibliotheca Bodleiana in Oxford; quoted from : Raymond Raymond Klibansky. In: Ver1eihung des Lessingpreises 1993 an Klibansky, Erinnerung an ein Jahrhundert. Gesprache mn Raymond Klibansky. Reden anlasslich der Preisiibergabe. Georges Leroux. Aus dem Franszosischen von Petra Willim. Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, 1994, pp. 12-22, Frankfurt am Main, lnsel, 2001, p. 100. here: p. 14. Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 17 American Cusanus Society Newsletter which he explained why he considered the School of of this encounter Klibansky's probably most famous book Chartres to be of major importance. 4 One of the most came into being, the study Saturn and Melancholy with the significant members of this school, Bernhard of Chartres (t subtitle Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion ca 1130), once said that academics were dwarfs standing on and Art. the shoulders of giants. For him the giants were the important figures of ancient philosophy. Compared to them , the modem In this book that was not published until 1964, which was philosophers appeared like dwarfs. The deeper implication of more than 30 years after it was actually written, the interests Bernhard's comparison was of course that the dwarfs could of Aby Warburg and the philosophical method of Ernst see as far as or even farther than the giants when they were Cassirer lead to a fruitful synthesis. Warburg took great standing on their shoulders. Bernhard sought to express that interest in those powers of the mind that, apart from the thinking of his time could make progress if it built up on rationality, determine the human being, such as magic and the achievements of ancient philosophy. Klibansky derived a astrology. With his idea of the symbolic forms Cassirer major theme of his medievalist research from the way the connected the various fields of cultural history like medieval philosophers saw themselves. It was the question philosophy, science, myth, religion and art with one another. whether ancient philosophy persisted in the Middle Ages. Besides that choosing melancholy as a field of research can Wrth his dissertation Klibansky had already laid the be attributed to certain ideas of individual geniuses from the foundations for his research. late Romantic period. These ideas had lived on, especially among the people around the German poet Stefan George Klibansky extended the question whether ancient thinking (1868--1933). During the time of his studies in Heidelberg, persisted and whether it was sensible to strictly separate Klibansky also was amongst George's circle of historical eras. In his search for an answer to this he acquaintances.6 While the art historian Panofsky was concentrated on the scholars of the Renaissance and of the working on a monograph about Albrecht Durer's copperplate modem age already in the early stages of his work. engraving Melancholia I, Klibansky pointed out to him the Significantly his first publication appeared in a book that great variety of interpretations of the idea of melancholy in described the philosophical premises of Klibansky's interests the history of philosophy. Later on he picked up that in this matter. In 1927 Klibansky published Carolus Bovillus' argument in a long chapter of a book with the same title. (t 1553) Uber de sapiente. It was located in the appendix of Here the starting point was the ancient idea of the "quattuor Ernst Cassirer's (1874-1945) book The lndividi.:al and the humores", the four body fluids that corresponded to the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy. It was not just that cosmic elements and periods. They determined the type of Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms strongly influenced character of each individual human being depending on how Klibansky's research. His personal relation to Cassirer itself they were combined. The book also contains a large section also had a decisive effect on Klibansky's future life.5 In 1926 on how the ancient idea of melancholy was seen in the Cassirer invited Klibansky to visit him at his house in Middle Ages and how it developed further back then . Hamburg. He introduced him to Aby Warburg (1866-1929), KUbansky describes that the theory of the four temperaments who allowed Klibansky to use his famous library. It was just became widely known especially due to Arabian medicine there where he met the art historian Erwin Panofsky (1892- and the work of medieval scholars such as Constantius 1968) and the codicologist Fritz Saxl (1890-1948). As a result Africanus (ca 1015- ca 1087) and Albertus Magnus (1193· 1280). In addition Klibansky brings out how the attitude towards melancholy changed in the Middle Ages. In the 4 Compare Raymond Klibansky, Standing on the Shoulders of ancient wortd there was a clear difference between natural Giants. In: lsis 26 (1936}, pp. 147-149; and: Raymond Klibansky, positive melancholy on the one hand and pathological The School of Chartres. In: M. Clagett, G. Post, R. Reynolds melancholy on the other hand. As described in Plato's (edd.), Twelfth-Century Europe and the Foundations of Modem Phaidros this was due to the differentiation between divine Society. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 1966, pp. delusion and delusion as a mental illness. Some medieval 3-14. writers, however, claim that melancholy is nothing but a 5 Compare Raymond Klibansky, Erinnerungen an Ernst Cassirer. negative state of mind. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), Raymond Klibansky im Gesprach mi! Thomas GOiier. In: for example, says that melancholy means punishment for the Internationale Zeitschrift fur Philosophie [no no.] 1999, issue 2, pp. 275-288. Raymond Klibansky, Die Grenzen des akademischen Lebens sprengen. Ein Gesprach uber Ernst s Compare Raymond Klibansky, Aus dem Heidelberger Cassirer und die Bibliothek Warburg. In: Merkur. Deutsche Geistesleben. Autobiographische Anmeri Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 18 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Fall. However, in the Middle Ages there also existed new house Meiner as a part of its 'Philosophische Bibliothek' theoretical approaches on the understanding of melancholy. (particular line of books). After Cohen 's death, the idea of a As an example Klibansky refers to the theory about a new edition on Cusanus' collected works was taken up by melancholy of love, an amor heroicus, which was expounded Ernst Hoffmann (1880-1952), one of Cassirer's pupils and by the Catalan scholar Arnold of Villanova (ca 1235- Professor of Philosophy at Heidelberg. Hoffmann is known to 1311 /13). It had been inspired by Latin translations of carry out studies on the history of Platonism in the Middle Avicenna. New stimuli concerning the idea of melancholy in Ages and he was Klibansky's supervisor while he finished his the Middle Ages also came from the influence of Arabian doctoral thesis about the School of Chartres in 1928. astrological literature. In the field of astrology melancholy Klibansky took part in one of Hoffmann's seminars about was connected with Saturn. According to Neoplatonic Cusanus in 1927.7 It was the same year that Cassirer's book tradition and for example Dante's Paradiso, Saturn is the The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy planet of devout contemplation. The result of this connection was published. It contained an excerpt of Cusanus' ldiota de was the idea of a unity between melancholy and mente. Klibansky pointed out to Cassirer that this particular ingeniousness. Renaissance philosopher Marsilio Ficino excerpt was based on an uncritical volume of the 16th (1433-1499) was one of the first to embody a pinnacle of this century. It was the Parisian Cusanus edition by Faber idea. The reason why the ideas of melancholy in the Middle Stapulensis (1455-1537) of 1514, which was newly reprinted Ages are of fundamental importance to Klibansky's work is by Henricus Petri (1441-1511) at Basel in 1565. In his that they are prime examples for how variable the discussion with Cassirer, Klibansky emphasised that it was understanding of melancholy truly is. highly necessary to publish a historically critical Cusanus edition and that such an edition should be based on all The question whether there is persistence in the develop preserved manuscripts available. For this purpose Klibansky ment of ideas in European philosophy became a dominant analysed each handwritten document inside and outside of issue for further large-scale medievalist research projects the Cusanus library at St. Nikolaus Hospital in Kues that he that Klibansky started in Heidelberg near the end of the could find. During a visit to Hamburg, he presented to 1920s. Here Klibansky's main goal was to understand the Cassirer his conception of a critical Cusanus edition. They characteristic way the Germans think that became manifest sent this conception to Hans von Schubert (1859-1931), who in Hegel's dialectic. According to Klibansky, German was Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of philosophy is dominated by a characteristical tendency Heidelberg and president of the 'Heidelberger Akademie der towards rationality and pushing forward to areas of the mind Wissenschaften' (Heidelberg Academy of Science). Schubert that go beyond rationality. Klibansky tried to understand this realised how important the project was and arranged for the particular characteristic better by considering the historical academy's decision to publish the Cusanus edition. For this context of a specific German tradition of thinking, which he purpose a special commission called the (still existing} put down to Nicolaus Cusanus (1401-1464) and Meister Cusanus Commission was installed. In the beginning, the Eckhart (ca 1260- ca 1328). commission's members were Klibansky, Ernst Hoffmann and the Neokantian Heinrich Rickert (1863-1936). Since 1928 Klibansky's interest in Cusanus is connected with the general Klibansky had been employed by the academy as academic rediscovery of this particular philosopher as of the late 19th specialist for the Cusanus edition.a century. Apart from the scholars of the Catholic TObinger School around Johann Adam Mohler (1796-1838) it were primarily the Neokantians, who showed interest in Cusanus 7 In a personal letter (July 25, 2003) to the author Prof. Morimichi again. They were looking for answers to questions on Watanabe (New York) wrote: "Another fact I wish to mention in epistemology and the philosophy of the mind. What the this connection is that one of my teachers at Columbia University philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) from Marburg was Professor Paul Oskar Kristeller, who was a student of Ernst Hoffmann both at his Gymnasium in Berlin and later at particularly liked about Cusanus was how he developed his Heidelberg University. Klibansky and KristeUer were Hoffrnann's philosophy. Cusanus took mathematical as well as scientific students at Heidelberg and became 'rivals' later as scholars in models as a basis. In his work Ernst Cassirer, who was a the good sense of the word. I believe that we can also call them pupil of Cohen at Marburg, further concentrated on these 'giants', the kind, I am afraid, we are not going to see in the aspects. In his book The Problem of Knowledge in Modem future. I was privileged to know them both and had them Philosophy and Science that he published in 1906, Cassirer simultaneously as members of the Advisory Board of our Society focuses on Cusanus in the entire first chapter. Cohen had until Prof. Kristeller died in 1999." already concentrated on publishing new editions of Cusanus' 8 works. These books were brought out by the publishing Regarding the history of the Cusanus edition at the academy of Heidelberg compare primarily: various writers, (no title, Reports Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 19 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Not only did Klibansky significar' '-, infiuence the olanning of 14 volumes altogether and was scheduled to be completed in the Cusanus edition, but he alsc oerv 1sed the ·'ctual 1939. The first two volumes were enthusiastically welcomed structuring of the individual volur Klibansky found it by famous medievalists and no less a person than Martin especially important to include a source directory and extra Grabmann (1875-1949) expressly emphasised Klibansky's information on the consequences of Cusanus' work apart work in a review.s Other critical editions about medieval from the main discussion. In this way Klibansky could refute scholars, such as Albertus Magnus and Johannes Duns Ernst Hoffmann's opinion that there was no connection Scots, were explicitly planned and structured following the between medieval Platonism and Cusanus. He proved that example set by Klibansky's Heidelberg Cusanus edition. there existed a direct continuity and reception between the Platonism taught at the School of Chartres and Cusanus. The fact that Klibansky started a second collected works Before the first volume of the critical Cusanus edition came project, aside from the Cusanus edition, shows Klibansky's out, Klibansky and Hoffmann released two of Cusanus' texts enormous wori Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 20 American Cusanus Society Newsletter scholars, such as Maimonides (1135-1204), who inspired Kirchengeschichte in 1936. 12 The Eckhart edition from Eckhart. But this did certainly not fit into the picture of their Stuttgart also contained the sermon on the Lord's Prayer and "German Master" that the National Socialists projected. As a the Parisian Questions and Prologues. This clearly shows consequence it did not take long until Klibansky had to face that there was a strong competition between the two editions. vehement opposition. His critics complained that the project was solely carried out by Jewish and foreign academics. Klibansky carried out the Eckhart edition project under the worst possible personal circumstances. In 1933 the pressure Shortly after Klibansky published the first fascicle, the Latin exercised by the National Socialist rule made Klibansky sermon on the Lord's Prayer, at the publishing house Meiner emigrate via the Netherlands to London where he became in Leipzig in 1934, he had to face competition. The 'Deutsche Honorary Lecturer at King's College. In addition, the library of Forschungsgemeinschaft' (German Research Society) Warburg employed him. He had arranged the library's move started to work on a competing edition with the publishing from Hamburg to London as early as the beginning of the house Kohlhammer (Stuttgart) in 1936. Aside from the Latin National Socialist rule. During the confusions of World War manuscripts, this version was planned to contain the texts in Two Klibansky continued his research work, but he also German. The head of the project was the Protestant worked for the British Intelligence. Most likely it was his ecclesiastical historian Erich Seeberg (1888-1945). While influence that prevented the Allies from bombarding St. Josef Koch (1885-1967) became responsible for the Latin Nikolaus Hospital in Kues with its precious collections of texts, Josef Quint (1898-1976) was in charge of the German Cusanus' handwritten manuscripts. part. Seeberg had virtually adapted the National Socialist projection of Eckhart and started inveighing against In spite of the unfavourable times Klibansky took the initiative Klibansky's edition in an impertinent way.10 He achieved that and started another innovative edition, namely the Corpus all Eckhart manuscripts located in German libraries were no Platonicum Medii Aevi. In his research on German dialectical longer available to the competing editors. Klibansky neither thinking he went from Hegel back to Cusanus and Eckhart. wanted nor could continue his work under such circum As a result of his research on these philosophers Klibansky stances. He therefore resigned from his post as chief of the discovered that, in fact, Platonism had strongly influenced edition at the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. their philosophy. In connection with this Klibansky made an Aside from the sermon on the Lord's Prayer only two further amazing find in the library of Cusanus as early as 1927. In fascicles had been published. The first was the prologues of the Latin translation by Cusanus of Proklos· commentary on the Opus tripartitum. It was edited by the Benedictine Plato's Parrnenides. Klibansky found a text that was missing Hildebrand Bascour (1900-1990) 11 from Belgium and pub in the widely spread Greek edition.13 That was why he lished in 1935. The second was Parisian Questions and actually recognised the true meaning of the medieval Prologues edited by the French Dominican Antoine Dondaine translations for the history of both Platonism and dialectical (1898-1987) and published in 1936. It contained commentary thinking . However, these translations had not yet been by Klibansky in Latin. The difficulties that Klibansky's edition presented in a coherent critical edition. After intense research had to face became more fierce as Josef Koch identified a work that Klibansky expounds in his book The Continufty of number of mistakes in it and listed them in the Zeitschrift fur the Platonic Tradition during the Middle Ages, released in London in 1939, he started to plan such an edition. Soon Klibansky realised that he ought to include the Arabian propagators of Platonic thinking from the Middle Ages in an io Erich Seaberg, Eckhartiana I. In: Zeitschrift fur individual section called Plato Arabus. The first two fascicles Kirchengeschichte 56 (1937), pp. 87-105. Id .. Die verlorene of the corpus, which was released at the Warburg Institute in Handschrift. In: Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte 8 (1937), pp. London, contained those two dialogues by Plato that had 386-397. In addition : Ingeborg Degenhardt, Studien zum Wandel been fully translated in the 12th century already. It was the des Eckhartbildes (= Studien zur Problemgeschichte der antiken und mittelalterlichen Philosophie 3). Leiden , Brill , 1976, pp. 294- 297. Karl Albert, (no title). In: Ceterum censeo ... Bernerkungen 12 Josef Koch, Kritische Bernerkungen zu Hildebrand Bascours zu Aufgabe und Tatigkeit eines philosophischen Verlegers. neuer Ausgabe der Eckhart-Prologe. In: Zeitschrifl fur Richard Meiner zum 8. April 1983. Hamburg, Meiner, 1983, pp . Kirchengeschichte 55 (1936), pp. 264-285. 23-25. 13 Raymond Klibansky, Ein Proklos-Fund und seine Bedeutung. 11 Regarding Bascour's cooperation with Klibansky also compare: (=Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Roland Hissette, In memoriam H. Bascour. In: Bulletin de Wissenschaften 1928129, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse, 5. philosophie medievale (Edita par la SIEPM) 32 (1990), p. 241. Abhandlung). Heidelberg, Winter, 1929. Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 21 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Menon , released in 1940, and the Phaidon, released in 1950. Peaceful Unity of Faith that was published by Klibansky and Publishing Plato's vital text for the Middle Ages, the Timaios, Hildebrand Bascour in 1956, already contains central aspects and the commentaries on it was a primary issue. Although of the idea of tolerance. Klibansky succeeded in proving that, this dialogue by Plato in the version of Chalcidius from the 4t~ among others, even Lessing (1729-1781) knew this text. century was not fully translated, it had great influence on the Thus he concluded thai rt influenced the ideas of tolerance development of a rational cosmology in the Middle Ages. during the Enlightenment.1s This influence contributed to the development of modem natural science. When he was president of the International Institute of Philosophy (1966-1969), Klibansky actively supported the Klibansky's research on Apuleius (2nd century) is also worldwide dialogue between cultures and philosophies. In connected with the question whether the Platonic tradition this position he published a number of companion volumes persists. In 1993 he published a complete directory of the on the contemporary situation of philosophy worldwide. He entire handwritten philosophical work of Apuleius together also published a few multilingual dictionaries and with Frank Regen. Referring to marginal notes that he found encyclopaedias that were meant to make communication in the Apuleius documents he concluded how Platonic ideas between philosophers from different countries easier. 16 were put across to Petrarca (1304-1374), Cusanus and Ficino. With his research on Platonic tradition in Latin Looking back at Raymond Klibansky's life - now almost Arabian medieval times Klibansky tried to explain how Plato's lasting a whole century - we can finally state: seldom if ever ideas had stayed alive in the history of European thinking, did someone transform the shocking events of our although his dialogues had not been available in the Greek contemporary history into highly positive commitment in a original. Since Klibansky's research work, the rather dialectical way as Klibansky has been doing in his entire life. confusing structure of epochs, namely the Aristotle Middle Ages on the one hand and the Platonic Middle Ages on the Chronological table about other hand, has finally become obsolete. Raymond Klibansky's life and work What is most intriguing about Klibansky's biography is the fact that not only did he witness the pinnacle of German 1905 Raymond Klibansky is born on 15 October in Paris as the son of a German vintner. Jewish academic culture and its bloody suppression by the National Socialists, but he also took part in rebuilding the 1914 At the beginning of World War One Klibansky's family emigrates from Paris Frankfurt world in the post-war period. In 1946 Klibansky followed a to 1921 Klibansky starts studying philosophy and philology in call to the English-speaking McGill University in Montreal. Heidelberg (with Karl Jaspers). Klibansky was a From 1947 he lectured for 21 years as Permanent Guest member of Stefan George's (Friedrich Gundolf) circle Professor at the local French-speaking university. He worked of acquaintances and frequented the house of Max closely together with the medievalist Benoit Lacroix (*1915), Weber's widow. the head of the local Albertus Magnus Institute for Medieval 1924 On Jaspers' recommendation Klibansky becomes Studies.14 assistant to the sociologist Ferdinand TOnnies in Kiel. Aside from the medievalist research Klibansky's philo sophical interests were dominated by his experiences of 1s Also Compare with Lessing: Raymond Klibansky, Rede zum dictatorship and world wars. As a consequence he planned Lessingpreis der Stadt Hamburg. In: Verleihung des to publish a number of texts that would proclaim tolerance Lessingpreises 1993 an Raymond Klibansky. Reden anlasslich and dialogue on a philosophical basis. He thought about der Preisiibergabe. Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, texts like John Locke's (1632-1704) A Letter Concerning 1994, pp. 23-32. Tolerance or Asoka's famous Indian Edicts from the 3rd 1s Regarding Klibansky's project on a multilingual dictionary of century, which demanded freedom of worship for the first philosophical terms also compare: Richard McKean, The time ever. Klibansky's research on tolerance is also strongly meaning of Justice and the Relations among Traditions of connected with medievalist interests. Cusanus' dialogue On Thought. In: Contribution au projet d'un Dictionnaire international des Tennes fondamentaux de la Philosophie et de la Pensee politique realise sous les auspices du Conseil international de 14 Raymond Klibansky, Rencontres avec Benoit Lacroix. In: Dits et Philosophie et des Sciences humaines avec !'aide de !'UNESCO. gestes de Benoit Lacroix. Montreal, Editions du Noroit I Released in: Revue internationale de phUosophie 11/41 (1957), Fondation Ai bert~e-Grand, 1995, pp. 143-145. pp. 253-267. Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 22 American Cusanus Society Newsletter 1926 Upon invitation by Ernst Cassirer Klibansky moves from 1947 Klibansky starts to work as a Guest Lecturer at the Heidelberg to Hamburg where he stays at Cassirer's Albertus Magnus Institute for Medieval Studies of the place. Together with Hans Saxl and Erwin Panofsky he French-speaking University of Montreal. works on Saturn and Melancholy at the Warburg library. 1956 Editing Nikolaus Cusanus' De pace fidei (together with 1927 Klibansky's first scienctific publication is an attachment H. Bascour). to Cassirer's book The Individual and the Cosmos in 1957 Founding the line of books Philosophie et Renaissance Philosophy. It is an edition of Carolus communaute mondiale with a number of multilingual Bovillus' De sapiente. In Kues Klibansky discovers the editions containing original texts on the ideas of Latin translation of an ending of Proklos' commentary tolerance and world community, among others, John on Parmenides that had been unknown up to then . He Locke's A Letter Concerning Tolerance (1964) and presents a plan for a critical edition of the works of The Edicts of Asoka (1968). Nikolaus Cusanus to the Heidelberg Academy of 1964 Saturn and Melancholy (English version) is published Science and is given the task by Heinrich Rickert and in London and New York almost thirty years after it Ernst Hoffmann. In 1932 Apologia doctae ignorantiae was written . and De docta ignorantia is published. 1966 Until 1969 Klibansky is president of the International 1928 Klibansky earns his doctorate at the University of Institute of Philosophy. In this capacity he publishes a Heidelberg with Professor Ernst Hoffmann. He writes number of companion volumes and multilingual his doctoral thesis on the School of Chartres. dictionaries to support the worldwide development of 1928 Klibansky starts his work as scientific assistant at the philosophy: Philosophy in the Mid-Century (1958-59); Heidelberg Academy of Science. He begins his Contemporary Philosophy(1968-71); La philosophie research for the Cusanus edition. en Europe (1993); Glossaire des mot-clefs de la 1931 Klibansky achieves habilitation at the University of philosophie (1996) Heidelberg with his thesis on Philosophy and History. 1993 Klibansky is granted the Lessing Prize in Hamburg. He is appointed as 'Privatdozent.'17 1995 Klibansky is granted the Honorary Doctorate at the 1932 Klibansky is planning a critical edition of Meister University of Bologna as well as the Nonino Pnze. Eckhart's Latin works (Magistri Eckardi Opera Latina) at the Heidelberg Academy of Science (publishing house Meiner, Leipzig). Superoratione dominica (ed . Bibliography Klibansky 1934) and Parisian Questions and Prologues {chronological order) (ed. Dondaine 1936) is published. Due to political reasons the edition can no longer be continued . A) Texts by Klibansky1B 1933 Klibansky emigrates from Heidelberg via the a) Editions and books Netherlands to London. During the Second World War he works for the British intelligence division Political Warfare Executive. 1a Regarding UUes unUI 1991 also compare: Bibliography of 1934 Klibansky is appointed Honorary Lecturer at King's Raymond Klibansky. In: The NoUon of Tolerance and Human College, London. Beginning his editorial work on the Rights. Essays in Honour of Raymond Klibansky. Edited by Ethel Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi in Oxford (College Orie~ . Groffier and Michel Paradis. Ottawa, Carteton University Press, 1936 Klibansky publishes a commemorative compilation for 1991 , pp. 165-17 4 [the following biography from 1975 is adapted Cassirer. It is titled Philosophy and History. completely: Michael J. Whalley I Desiree Park, Bibliography of 1939 The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition is published at Raymond Klibansky. In: Methode et Philosophie de l'histoire. Warburg Institute in London. Hommage a Raymond Klibansky. Numero thematique de la Revue Internationale de Philosophie pp. 1941 The first volume of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 19/111-112 (1975), 167- 174]. As well as: Georges Leroux, Hommage Raymond (co-production with Richard Hunt; eight volumes until a Klibansky: De Nicolas de Cues aux entfants de Satume. - 1968) is published. Bibliographie des lravaux de Raymond Klibansky. - Curria.ilum 1946 Klibansky is appointed as Professor at the English vitae. Paris, Gallimard, 1991. And : Bibliographie der Bucher und speaking McGill University in Montreal. Aufsatze Raymond Klibanskys. In: Raymond Klibansky, Erinnerung an ein Jahmundert. Gesprache mit Georges Leroux. Aus dem Franzosischen von Petra Willim. Frankfurt am Main, lnsel, 2001 , pp. 277-280. I would like to express my gratitude to 11 Title of a lecturer who is not a professor and not a civil servant at Mrs Professor Ethel Groffier-Klibansky (Montreal) for her advice a university. regarding publications after 1991 . Volume XX I, Number 2 December 2004 23 ------ American Cusanus Society Newsletter CAROLUS BOVILLUS: Uber de Sapiente. Einleitung und Edition Plato Latinus IV: nmaeus, a Calcidio translatus von R. Klibansky. Beilage zu Ernst Cassirer: lndividuum commentarioque instructus. Ed. J.H. Waszink. Londonii und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance . et Leida, In aedibus lnstituti Warburgiani , 1962. (=Studien der Bibliothek Warburg 10). Leipzig I Berlin, Plato Arabus I: Galeni Compendium Timaei Platonis. Edd. Teubner; 1927, pp . 299-458. Reprint: Darmstadt, Paulus Kraus et Richardus Walzer. Londonii, In aedibus Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1963 and 1994. lnstituti Warburgiani , 1961 . Ein Proklos-Fund und seine Bedeutung. (=Sitzungsberichte Plato Arabus II : Alfarabius de Platonis Philosophia. Ed. der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften Franciscus Rosenthal et Richardus Walzer. Londonii, In 1928/29, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse , aedibus lnstituti Warburgiani, 1943. 5. Abhandlung). Heidelberg, Winter, 1929. Plato Arabus Ill: Alfarabius Compendium legum Platonis. Ed. Cusanus-Texte I. 1. Predigten. ,,Dies Sanctificatus" vom J.H. Waszink. Londonii, In aedibus lnstituti Warburgiani , Jahre 1439. Lateinisch und deutsch mit Erlauterungen 1952. hg. von E. Hoffmann und R. Klibansky. Reprint of Plato Latinus 1-111 and Plato Arabus 1-111: Nendeln (=Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der (Liechtenstein), Kraus-Thomson, 1973. Second edition Wissenschaften 1928/29. Philosophisch-Historische of Plato Latinus IV: Leiden, Brill, 1975. Klasse, 3. Abhandlung 1929). Heidelberg, Winter, 1929. Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies. Edited with R.W. Hunt, NICOLAI DE CUSA: Opera omnia (iussu et auctoritate Oxford. Published so far. Academiae Litterarum Heidelbergensis edita). Vol. II: Vol. I, 1 The Warburg Institute, University of Apologia Doctae lgnorantiae (ed .). Lipsiae (Leipzig), London 1941 . Meiner, 1932. Reprint: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, N1coLA1 DE CusA: Opera omnia (iussu et auctoritate 1970. Academiae Litterarum Heidelbergensis edita). Vol. I: De Vol. I, 2 The Warburg Institute, University of Docta lgnorantia (mit Ernst Hoffmann). Lipsiae London 1943. (Leipzig), Meiner, 1932. Reprint: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, MAGISTRI ECKARD!: Opera Latina (auspiciis lnstituti S. Sabinae 1970. in Urbe ad codicum fidem edita). Fasc. I: Super oratione Vol. II The Warburg Institute, University of dominica. Lipsiae (Leipzig), Meiner, 1934. London 1951 . MAGISTRI ECKARD!: Opera Latina (auspiciis lnstituti Reprint: Nendeln (Liechtenstein), Kraus, S. Sabinae in Urbe ad codicum fidem edita). Fasc. XIII: 1970. Quaestiones Parisienses. Edidit Antonius Dondaine OP. Vol. Ill The Warburg Institute, University of Commentariorum de Eckardi Magisterio. Adiunxit London 1954. Raymundus Klibansky. Lipsiae (Leipzig), Meiner, 1936. Vol. IV The Warburg Institute, University of Philosophy and History. Essays in Honour of Ernst Cassirer. London 1958. Edited with H.J. Paton. Oxford, Clarendon, 1936. Vol. V The Warburg Institute, University of Reprint, with enlarged bibliography: New York, Harper London 1961. Torchbooks, 1963. Vol. VI The Warburg Institute, University of The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition. London, The London 1968. Warburg Institute, 1939. Second edition: London 1950. Supplement Vol. I The Warburg Institute, University of Corpus Platonicum Medii Aevi. Auspiciis Academiae London 1951 . Reprint: Nendeln Britannicae edidit Raymundus Klibansky. (Liechtenstein), Kraus, 1977. Plato Latinus I: Meno, lnterprete Henrico Aristippo. Ed. Supplement Vol. II The Warburg Institute, University of V. Kordeuder. Recognovit et praefatione instruxlt London 1952. Carlotta Labowsky. Londonii, In aedibus lnstituti Supplement Vol. Ill The Warburg Institute. University of Warburgiani, 1940. London 1956. Reprint: Nendeln Plato Latinus II: Phaedo, lnterprete Henrico Aristippo. 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Paris, Les -VARIOUS WRITERS, (no title, Reports on the progress of the Belles Lettres, 1998. Montreal, Bon~al, 2000. Spanish Cusanus edition at the Heidelberger Akademie der translation: Barcelona 1999. German translation: Wissenschaften). In: Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Erinnerung an ein Jahrhundert. Gesprache mit Georges Akademie der Wissenschaften. Jahreshefte. Heidelberg, Leroux. Aus dem Franzosischen von Petra Willim. Winter, 1927-28: p. VII, VIII, X, XIII-XVIII. 1928-29: p. VI, Frankfurt, lnsel, 2001. XI, XVI-XVII. 1929-30: p. IV, VII, XI, XIII, XVIII, XXl Erinnerungen an Ernst Cassirer. Raymond Klibansky im XXIV. 1930-31: p. X, XV-XVI. 1931-32: p. XVII, XIV-XVI. Gesprach mft Thomas GOiier. In: Internationale 1932-33: p. VI, VIII, XV. 1933-34: p. Ill, X-XI. 1935-36: Zeitschrift fur Philosophie [no no.] 1999, Heft 2, pp. 275- p. V-VI, XVI. 288. - WATANABE, M.: Professor Raymond Klibansky to Speak at Erlebte Geschichte erzahlt 1994-1997. Michael Buselmeier Kalamazoo in 1986. In: American Cusanus Society im Gesprach mit Raymond Klibansky fund anderen]. Newsletter 11/2 (1985), pp. 2-3 und 11111 (1986). p. 1. Hrsg. von der Stadt Heidelberg. Heidelberg 2000, pp. 8- - WATANABE, M.: The Warburg Institute. In: American 29. Cusanus Society Newsletter 111/2 (1986), pp. 7-8. Verzweifeln an der Welt. Und Raymond Klibansky kannte sie - WATANABE, M.: Professor Raymond Klibansky lnteMewed a/le. Ein P/adoyer fiir die Melancho/ie. (=Interview mit in a French Publication [= Prefaces 13 (Mai - juin 1989)). Raymond Klibansky von Andre Behr und Lars In: American Cusanus Society Newsletter Vl/2 (1989), Reichardt). In: SOddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Beilage p. 5. zu: SOddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 114 vom 18. Mai 2001, - WATANABE, M.: Mr. Richard Meiner, Publisher of Cusanus' pp. 18-23. Reprint in: Behr, Andre und Reichardt, Lars: Opera omnia and the Philosophische Bibliothek, Lauter bitte! DOsseldorf, My favourite book, 2001 . Honored. In: American Cusanus Society Newsletter Vl/2 (1989), pp. 15. C) Commemorative publications for Klibansky -WATANABE, M.: Hommage a Raymond Klibansky. In: American Cusanus Society Newsletter Vlll/1 (1991 ), Methode et Philosophie de l'histoire. Hommage a Raymond pp. 8-9. Klibansky. Numero thematique de la Revue -ALBERT, KARL: (no title, on Klibanskys Eckhart-Edition). In: Internationale de Philosophie 29/111-112 (1975). Ceterum censeo ... Bemerkungen zu Aufgabe und Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 30 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Tatigkeit eines philosophischen Verlegers. Richard -HOFFMANN , THEA: W!e die Cusanus-Ausgabe begann. In: Meiner zum 8. April 1983. Hamburg , Meiner, 1983, Mitteilungen und Forschungsbeitrage der Cusanus pp . 23-25. Gesellschaft 5 (1965) , pp . 164-165. -BEIERWALTES, WERNER: (no title, on the Cusanus-Edition of -HUBER, MARGARETHA: Der Humanist. Raymond Klibansky the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften) . In: plauderl mit Georges Leroux uber die alte Zeit. in: Ceterum censeo ... Bemerkungen zu Aufgabe und Suddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 192 vom 22. August 2001 , Tatigkeit eines philosophischen Verlegers. Richard p. 16. Meiner zum 8. April 1983. Hamburg, Meiner, 1983, -KOCH, JOSEF: Kritische Bemerkungen zu Hildebrand pp. 26-30. Bascours neuer Ausgabe der Eckhart-Prologe. In: -BOLTON , JOE: Where's Raymond? A review of"Le Zeitschrift fUr Kirchengeschichte 55 (1936), pp. 264-285. Philosophe et la memoire du siecle." In: The New -KRACAUER, SIEGFRIED- PANOFSKY, ERWIN: Briefwechsel Criterion 17 (January 1999), p. 78. 1941-1966. Ed. Volker Breidecker. Bertin, Akademie -BORMANN, KARL: (no tftle, on the Cusanus-Edffion of the Verlag, 1996 (pp. 74, 104-106, 137, 161). Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften) . In: -LE DoEUFF' MICHELE: Raymond Klibansky- Periple d'un Ceterum censeo ... , cit. , pp. 31-34. phi/osophe il/ustre [=Archeobibliographie Raymond -BOYCE, GRAY C.: Review of: Raymond Klibansky (ed.): Klibansky, first article}. In: Prefaces. Les iclees et les Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies 1/1. In: The sciences dans la bibliographie de la France 13 (Mai American Historical Review 47/2 (1942), pp. 320-321. juin 1989), pp . 125-131 . Italian, RaymondKlibansky -BUSNEL, FRANCOIS: Raymond Klibansky: le demier des Periplo di un filosofo illustre [=ricordo di Raymond geants. In: Voyage dans la litterature quebecoise Klibansky, first article]. In: Rivista di estetica XL, nuova (Supplement special Quebec). In: Magazine litteraire serie 15/3 (2000), pp. 222-229. 374 (Mars 1999), pp. 100-120. On Klibansky: p. 113. -LEONI, FEDERICO: Della melancolia nella storia [=ricordo di -DE MANTICELLI, ROBERTA: Della nobilta de/lo Spirito [=ricordo Raymond Klibansky, third arlicle]. In: Rivista di estetica di Raymond Klibansky, second arlicle}. In: Rivista di XL, nuova serie 15/3 (2000), pp. 233-236. estetica XL, nuova serie 15/3 (2000), pp. 230-232. -LEROUX, GEORGES: Hommage aRaymond Klibansky: De -DEGENHARDT, INGEBORG: Studien zum Wandel des Nicolas de Cues aux enfants de Satume. - Bibliographie Eckhartbildes (= Studien zur Problemgeschichte der des travaux de Raymond Klibansky. - Curriculum vitae. antiken und mittelaltertichen Philosophie 3). Leiden, Brill, Paris, Gallimard, 1991 . 1976, pp. 294-297. -MARROU , HENRl-IRENEE: Review of: R. Klibansky: The -DIETZ, Luc: Das Jahrhunderl im Spiegel. Zurn 90. Continuity of the Platonic Tradition. London, The Geburlstag von Raymond Klibansky. In: Neue Zurcher Warburg Institute, 1939. In: Revue du Moyen Age Latin Zeitung Nr. 235 vom 14./15. Oktober 1995, p. 34. 2 (1946), pp. 71-72. -FLASCH , KURT: Laudatio auf den Preistrager Raymond -MCKEON , RICHARD: The meaning of Justice and the Klibansky. In: Verteihung des Lessingpreises 1993 an Relations among Traditions of Thought. In: Contribution Raymond Klibansky. Reden anlaP..lich der au projet d'un Dictionnaire international des Termes Preisubergabe. Hamburg, Freie und Hansestadt fondamentaux de la Philosophie et de la Pensee Hamburg, 1994, pp. 12-22. politique realise sous Jes auspices du Conseil -GOLLER, THOMAS: Review of: Raymond Klibansky: international de Philosophie et des Sciences humaines Erinnerung an ein Jahrtiundert. Gesprache mit Georges avec !'aide de !'UNESCO. Published in: Revue Leroux. In: Philosophischer Literaturanzeiger 55/2 intemationale de philosophie 11141 (1957), pp. 253-267 (2002), pp. 150-154. [= on Klibansky's project of a multilingual dictionary of -GRABMANN, MARTIN: Review of: Nicolai de Gusa Opera philosophical terms]. omnia, Vol. I und II. In: Deutsche Literaturzeitung, Dritte -MEYER, MARTIN: Die Macht des Wissens, das W!ssen der Folge, 4. Jahrgang, Heft 15 (9. April 1933), Sp. 685-692. Macht. Der Philosoph Raymond Klibansky erzahlt aus -HISSETIE, ROLAND: In memoriam H. Bascour. In: Bulletin de seinem Leben. In: Neue Zurcher Zeitung Nr. 149 vom philosophie medievale (Edite par la SIEPM) 32 (1990), 30. Juni2001, p. 75. p. 241 . -MEYER, THOMAS: Die Trennung zwischen Theorie und Praxis -HOFFMANN , ERNST: (no title, Reporl on Klibansky's discovery aufgeben. Der groBe Gelehrle Raymond Klibansky im of an unknown letter by Abaelard in cod. heidelbergensis Gesprach mff Georges Leroux. In: Frankfurter 359, 8). In: Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie Rundschau Nr. 161vom14. Juli 2001, p. 20. der Wissenschaften. Jahreshefte. Heidelberg, Winter, -MICHELS, KAREN: Ein scharfziingiger Mystiker. Den 1930-31, p. IX. unheilvollen EinfluB Satums iiberwunden. Raymond Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 31 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Klibansky erhielt den Lessing-Preis. In : • 1nkfurter PROFESSOR BRIAN TIERNEY AllgemeineZeitung Nr.114vom 18. Mc: 194, p. N7. RECEIVES QUASTEN MEDAL FROM -MUSSGNUG, DOROTHEE: Die vertriebenen He .Je/berger Dozenten. Zur Geschichte der Ruprecht-Karls THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA Universitat nach 1933. Heidelberg, Winter, 1988. On Klibansky: pp. 40-43, 148f u.i:i . Prof. Tierney was selected as the 2003 recipient of the -PIAIA, GREGORIO: Un'eccezionale testimonianza di filosofia e Catholic University of America's Johannes Quasten Medal vita: L'autobiografia di Raymond Klibansky. In: Rivista di for Excellence in Scholarship and Leadership in storia della filosofia 54/2 (2000), pp. 275-279. Religious Studies. This is the highest honor given by the -RAWLS, JOHN: Review of:Raymond Klibansky (ed.): School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic Philosophy in the Mid-Century. A Survey. In: University of America. He accepted the award on October Philosophical Review 70/1 (1961) pp. 131-132. 14, 2004 and presented the lecture "Monks in a Changing -SANTINELLO, GIOVANNI: Art. Klibansky, Raymond. In: Medieval World, 1100-1150 ." Enciclopedia filosofica. Centro di Studi Filosofici di Gallarate. Firenze, Sansoni, 1967. Vol. Ill, col. 1282- 1283. ***** -SCHAFFRODT, PETRA: Juden an der Universitat Heidelberg. HEIDELBERGER AKADEMIE DER Dokumente aus sieben Jahrhunderten. Beiheft zur WISSENSCHAFTEN HOLDS A SYMPOSIUM Ausstellung in Heidelberg (Universitatsbibliothek) vom ON THE COMPLETION OF CUSANUS' 12.6.-31 .8.2002 und in Jerusalem vom 6.11.-31.12.2002. Heidelberg, Universitatsbibliothek, 2002. OPERA OMNIA Feb. 11-12, 2005 -SEEBERG, ERICH : Eckhartiana I. In: Zeitschrift fiir Kirchengeschichte 56 (1937) , pp. 87-105. As announced at the business meeting of the American -SEEBERG, ERICH: Die verlorene Handschrift. In: Cusanus Society last May (Newsletter, XXl, 1, July, 2004), Nationalsozialistische Monatshefte 8 (1937), pp. 386- the Heidelberger Akademie will end its support for the 397. publication of Nicholas of Cusa's Opera omnia and Acta -SENGER, HANS GERHARD: Die kritische Edition der Werl Documentary film: 16:30 Uhr Dank und Gedenken -TOUGAS, ANNE-MARIE: Raymond Klibansky. De la philosophie Werner Beierwaltes ala vie. Un Film de Anne-Marie Tougas. (51 minutes). Vorsitzender der Cusanus-Gesellschaft Office national du Film du Canada, 2001 . Giovanni Benedetto Platti Sonate e-moll Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 32 American Cusanus Society Newsletter 17:00 Uhr Die Cusanus-Ausgabe aus der Sicht des Im Besonderen mochte ich die Gru!!botschaft unseres Verlegers Vorsitzenden , Prof. Dr. Morimichi Watanabe, der wegen Manfred Meiner Verpfiichtungen an seiner Universitat nicht kommen konnte, persbnlich iiberbringen. Prof. Watanabe hat mich darum 17:30 Uhr Zur Geschichte des Edition der opera omnia gebeten, die enge Beziehung zwischen unserer Gesellschaft des Nicolaus Cusanus und der Familie des Verlegers der Opera Omnia zu erinnem. Hans Gerhard Senger Dabei mbchte ich auch Herrn Manfred Meiner begrii!!en. Im Johann Joachim Quantz Namen aller unserer Mitglieder mochte ich ihm fOr seine Sonate G-Dur enge Zusammenarbeit als Verleger und seiner Familie fur den unme!!baren, mittlerweile schon sieben und 19:00 Uhr Empfang siebzigjahrigen Beitrag zur Cusanus-Forschung danken. Februar 12 lch freue mich, Oberbringer der guten Wiinsche der Mitglieder der American Cusanus Society zu sein, und dass 9:30 Uhr Die Docta lgnorantia des Cusanus ich die Ehre habe, diese hier zu vertreten. Lassen Sie mich Kurt Flasch aber noch einen Wunsch fiir dieses Symposium Pause aussprechen: Wahrend wir uns hier an einem friihen Studienort des Nikolaus von Kues versammeln, um die gro~ 11 :15 Uhr Die bleibende Relevanz des Erkenntnislehre Leistung des Abschlu!!es der kritischen Edition mitzufeiem, des Kusaners deren wechselvolle Geschichte zu erinnern, und den Wolfhart Pannenberg universalen Geist des Kardinals aus dem Moselgebiet in Betracht zu nehmen, mbgen wir auch bedenken, wie sehr Mittag pause sich die Cusanus-Forschung innerhalb der letzten Jahre weltweit ausgebreitet hat. Es bedurfte nicht erst der 14:30 Uhr Gotteserfahrung von Eckhart zu Cusanus Vehemenz und lauten Worte der Globalisierung, um Walter Haug mittlerweile weltweit die enorrne und stille Kraft der Weisheit Pause des cusanischen Denkens in z.B. Buenos Aires, Kalamazoo, Cambridge, Coimbra, Finland, und Tokyo zu erspiiren. Der 15:45 Uhr Die Musik des Cusanus-Zeit Abschluss dieser glanzenden Edition verheisst daher unserer Peter GUike Mitarbeit in der Cusanus-Forschung nicht nur eine hoffnungsvolle Prasenz unter dieser Versammlung in dieser 16:45 Uhr Schlusswort prachtigen und ausserst verdienstvollen Akademie der Peter Graf Kielmansegg Wissenschaften, sondem auch eine hoffnungsvolle Zukunft in einer von einem zerbrechlichen Zusammenspiel von Gegensatzen gekennzeichneten Welt, in der wir heute Dr. Casarella's Greetings zusammen leben. Gru!?ibotschaft der American Cusanus Society ~ IN MEMORIAM ~ Sehr geehrter Prasident der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften , Herr Prof. Graf Kielmansegg! Dean Loy Bilderbach 1932. 2004 Sehr geehrter Herr Vorsitzender der Cusanus-Kommission Prof. Dr. Beierwaltes! Emeritus Professor Dean Loy Bilderbach at California State University Fresno, author of the stimulating, much discussed Sehr geehrter Vorsitzender der Cusanus-Gesellschaft Prof. article, "Eugene IV and the First Dissolution of the Council of Dr. Lentzen-Deis! Meine sehr verehrten Darnen und Herren! Basie," Church History 36 (1967): 245-261, passed away on July 4, 2004 in Fresno after a long battle with cancer. A Es ist mir eine groBe Ehre und ganz besondere Freude, die celebration of the life of Dr. Bilderbach was held on Friday, hohen Gaste im Namen der American Cusanus Society auf August 20, at 6 p.m. in the Madden Library Solarium at das Herzlichste zu begriiBen. Fresno State. Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 33 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Dr. Bilderbach was born in Enid, Oklahoma on September Nordhorn , and first came to Michigan in 1950 to receive his 25, 1932, and spent his early years on a wheat farm, bachelor's degree from Western Theological Seminary in homesteaded by his grandparents. He began his studies at Holland , Ml. He then received his master's degree from the Northern Oklahoma Junior College in Ponca City and then University of Gottingen in Germany. After returning to the received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Kansas and United States in 1953, the young scholar graduated from his Ph.D. from the University of Washington studying under Princeton Theological Seminary with a Ph.D. in 1961 . His Howard Kaminsky. He joined the faculty of the then Fresno dissertation was on Girolamo Zauchi (1516-1590), who was State College in 1962 and retired after thirty-nine years. He an Italian Protestant reformer. The dissertation was was a specialist in medieval European history, particularly in published in 1965 as: Die Gotteslehre Girolamo Zauchis und Church history. ihre Bedeutung tor seine Lehre von der Pradestination. Dr. Grlindler served as a pastor at First Presbyterian Church in In 1976, Dr. Bilderbach was a visiting scholar at the Institute Stillcoda, NJ for six years while he began his academic for Population Studies (IDESPO) of the National University in career as an instructor of German language and literature at Hereda, Costa Rica and co-authored in 1979 "The Golden Westminster Choir College, Princeton and a teaching fellow Door: International Migration. Mexico, and the United States," in history on Christian thought at Princeton University. with the noted biologist and long-time friend, Prof. Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University. As a result of this publication, In 1971, he joined the faculty at Western Michigan University, he was called to Washington, D. C. to testify as an expert Kalamazoo, Ml in the newly founded Philosophy and Religion witness before Congress concerning pending immigration Department. Becoming Director of the Midieval Institute at legislation. He later became an expert in Gothic and WMU in 1976, he taught until his retirement in 1995. He died Romanesque architecture. at his house in Kalamazoo on September 12, 2004. A memorial service was held at 11 :00 a.m. on Friday, On the Council of Basel, Dr. Bilderbach wrote his Ph.D. September 24, at Kanley Chapel on the WMU campus. Dissertation, The Membership of the Council of Basie (Washington 1966) (UMI 66-7868, Ann Arbor 1982) and Because the 4Qth International Congress on Medieval Studies "Proctorial Representation and Conciliar Support at the this year will give its participants many opportunities to learn Council of Basie," in Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum about and to reflect on Dr. Grlindler's contributions to (1969): 140-152, as well as the article mentioned at the medieval studies, we will focus our attention below on his beginning. His detailed studies in these publications were support and help to our Society. revealing and were cited frequently, for example, by Johannes Helmrath, Das Basler Konzil, 1431-1449: In the 1970's the Editor approached Director Grlindler with a Forschungsstand und Probleme (Koln/Wien, 1987). proposal that the Congress invite a world-renown, senior scholar in Neoplatonism and Nicolaus Cusanus at Oxford as Dr. Bilderbach was above all a fine teacher and colleague. a plenary speaker for a future Congress. After listening to During his Fresno State career, he served on many faculty the Editor's explanations and justifications carefully, Dr. committees and as chair of the History Department in 2000 Grlindler asked resolutely: "How old is the man?" It was and directed numerous master's degree theses. He was a instantly clear that the Director was a man who had had and frequent speaker at academic and community meetings. overcome many difficult situations and problems in running his Congress. In the 1980's, the number of participating Otto Grundler organizations in the Congress increased. As a resulL the 1928-2004 number of proposed sessions also exceeded the possible limit acceptable at the Congress. While explaining to the It was the late Prof. Otto Grlindler who, after taking over the Editor these changes and the way in which the resultant directorship of the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan problems might be resolved, Dr. Grlindler said he regretted University in 1976, developed its annual International that he had to cut the number of sessions, but then almost Congress on Medieval Studies, into the largest academic blurted out: "Not your group!" The Editor was profoundly assemblage of medievalists in the world. In recent years the grateful to him and still remembers the occasion very clearly. number of participants, from the U.S. and abroad, exceeded three thousand. On April 26, 2004, Prof. Peter Casarella of the Catholic University of America, Vice President of the American Born in Burbach, Germany on April 3. 1928, as the son of Cusanus Society, sent a letter of invitation to Dr. Grlindler to Wilhelm Griindler and Anna Low, he was educated in deliver the 2005 Morimichi Watanabe Lecture at the 40lh Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 34 American Cusanus Society Newsletter International Congress. Promptly, on May 6, the Society Unruhis i:st uruer llcrz, bis cs ruht in Dir. received his acceptance. We were told later that he was very (Augwti11u$) pleased by the invitation. No doubt, that is the reason why he attended on the same day the 2004 Morimichi Watanabe Wir trauern um Lecture delivered by Prof. William J. Courtenay at the 39lh International Congress. Prof. Dr. Phil. Agostino Sottili • 28.8. J 939 t I 4.9.2004 II is clear that Dr. Grundler's colleagues and friends all think rneinen geliebtcn Mann, und unsercn guten Yater, der of him as a man of dedication, kindness and foresight. As uncrwartet vcrstorben ist. John 8. Wickstrom of Kalamazoo College put it, he was "a Sein Leben war gepriist von pers()nlichcr nc,cheidenheil gentleman of great kindness, open always to new ideas and und der Sorge fiir seine Familie. Bei seiner akademischen Lchrtiitiglceit lag iltm die new directions for medieval studies." He supported the Motivation und FOrdcrung seiner Studcnten am Herzen. American Cusanus Society strongly and continuously. We Er wird wts allcn fehlcnl are very honored that we can dedicate our 2005 Morimichi ln der Gewi£hcit dc$ Glaubcns, dass der Tod uns in die Watanabe Lecture to Dr. Otto GrOndler with great respect gC>ttliche Ewiglceit fiihrt und uns Antcil gibt am and gratitude. uncndUchcn Frieden, haben wlr von ihm Abschied scnommen. Giuseppina Sottili geb. Mandorli Agostino Sottili Carla Sottili und]ean Luc Vanderschucren Valeria Sottili 1939. 2004 Llvia Sottili und Verwllndte Prof. Dr. Phil. Agostino Sottili, Professor of History at the ConoCuale n. 291 • IOIS2Torino Catholic University of Torino, passed away unexpectedly on I ta lien September 14, 2004 at the age of 65 as a result of heart operation. A dedicated scholar, a loving husband, and a dear father of three daughters, he is sorely missed by his APOLOGIES! family. But family members wrote clearly in the obituary the following: "Unruhig ist unser Herz, bis es ruht in Dir. For various reasons, the Editor could not write an article on (Augutinus)." either "Cusanus' Contemporaries· or "Following His Steps· for this issue. Prof. Sottili took special interest in the development of humanism in the Late Middle Ages, especially in Italy and In the following, the list of all previously published articles on Germany. The following books of his, Codici def Petrarca the topics is given in the hope that the readers may suggest nelle Germania occidentale (Padova, 197-), Studenti to the Editor a new article to be written, or, better still, that tedeschi e umanesimo italiano nell'Universita di Padova someone may volunteer to contribute an article for the future durante ii Quattrocento (Padova, 1971), and Untversita e issues of the Newsletter. cultura: studi sui rapporti italo-tedeschi nell'eta dell'Umanesimo (Goldbach, 1993), clearly show where his Lists of Articles in the Two Series main interests in ear1y years were. In recent years, he turned special attention to the University of Pavia and published that Appeared in the Past Issues many articles on the topic and others, such as "La Natio Germanica dell'Universitil di Pavia nella Storia • "Cusanus' Contemporaries" dell'Umanesimo• in J.-J. Paquet llsewijn, ed., The Universities in the Late Middle Ages (Lowen, 1978), pp. 347- Title Vol. 364. For his other publications, see Newsletter, XI, 2, 27; Vinzenz von Aggsbach (ca. 1389-1464) V,1 XII, 1, 26-27; XIII, 1, 26; XVIII, 1, 50; XIX, 1, 31; XIX, 2, 35- IX,2 36; XX, 1, 30; XX, 2, 35; XXI, 1, 43. Cardinal Bessarion (1403-1472) Govanni Andrea Bussi (1317-1475) X,1 The Editor had a chance to visit Prof. Sottili in Torino in 1978 Heymericus de Campo (1395-1460) Xlll, 1 and was received by him and Mrs. Sottili very cordially and More on Hymericus de Campo Xlll,2 graciously. It was very interesting and informative to visit his Giuliano Cesarini (1389?-1444) Vll,1 university with him. He was a real scholar and a gentleman. Eleanor of Scotland (1433-1480) Vl,1 May his soul rest in peace! Volume XX.I, Number 2 December 2004 . 35 ------American Cusanus Society Newsletter Peter Wymar von Erkelenz (ca. 1430-1494) XVlll,1 Hildesheim Xlll ,2 Pope Eugenius (Eugene) IV (1431-1447) XX,2 Wilsnack and Halbestadt XIII ,1 Richard Flemming (c. 1378-1431) IX,1 Wilsnack and Havelberg XIV,2 Frederick Ill (1415-1493) Xl ,2 Minden XIV,1 Gregor Heimburg (ca. 1400-1472) XVlll,2 Castello Andraz VI, 1 Johannes Hinderbach (1418-1486) XVl,1 Benedictine Convent of Sonnenburg 1,2 Thomas Livingston X,2 Cues (Kues) XVl,2 Tommaso Parentucelli (Pope Nicholas V) Cues (Kues): Part 2, Hospital of St. Nicholas XVII ,1 (1397-1455; Pope 1447-1455) XX,1 Cues (Kues): Part 3, The Library XVll,2 Johann Nider (Nieder, Nyder) 0.P. 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Authority in the "Commentarii" of Pope Pius II (1453- Translation of NIKOLAUS VON KUES 1401-1464. Skizze 1464). (Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Harvard University einer Biographie. By Erich Meuthen. 7th edition, Munster: 2004). Aschendorff, 1992. By Gerald Christianson and David Crowner. Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 38 American Cusanus Society Newsletter BOOK REVIEW beginning of the 20th century marked the beginning of modern Cusanus scholarship, conceived of him as the first Italian Martin Thurner, ed. Nicolaus Cusanus zwischen humanist philosopher, who anticipated the modem philosophy Deutsch/and und ltalien. Beitrage eines deutsch· of mind. Cassirer's view, which saw Cusanus as renaissance italienischen Symposiums in der Villa Vigoni. precursor of Hegel , drew much criticism because it lacked [Veroffentlichungen des Grabmann-lnstitutes zur Erforschung philological evidence which would indicate that Cusanus was der Mittelalterlichen Theologie und Philosophie, Band 48.) attentively read and received by the beacons of Florentine and Berlin: Akademie Verlag , 2002. 691 pp. Milan humanism, such as Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola. Most famous in this concert was Eugenio Garin's By voice, who reached the conclusion that Cusanus and Italian Thomas Prugl humanism represented two different worlds, alien to one University of Notre Dame another and unable to enter into a dialogue. It was to K. 0. Kristelle~s merit that he refuted Garin's verdict. He and his The Gennan-ltalian Symposium "Nicolaus Cusanus students, e.g. Pauline Moffit Watts and John Monfasani, were zwischen Deutschland und ltalien", which was organized by able to highlight Cusanus's originality by situating him within a the Grabmann-lnstitut of the University of Munich and took well connected web of Italian humanist culture. So, place at the Villa Vigoni, a small academic institution located contemporary scholarship is again far more inclined to at Lake Como in northern Italy, was one of the most acknowledge the continuity and mutual influence between remarkable scholarly activities during the Cusanus jubilee in Cusanus and Italian humanism. The studies assembled in this 2001 . There, some 40 Gennan and Italian Cusanus scholars volume, in large part, mirror the ongoing debate, with some of gathered to discuss the respective influences which Cusanus them trying to offer new historical evidence for a more complex received from the two cultures. After the symposium had and vivid picture of Cusanus among the Italians. found widespread attention in journals and yearbooks, 19 the present volume , edited by Martin Thurner, the initiator and Cesare Vasoli, in his brilliant opening lecture. depicted the organizer of the conference, made the lectures available in world of Florentine Platonism, pointing out that Ficino print. Besides the papers delivered at the conference, the remained largely unaffected by Cusanus's works and volume included a few more articles about the topic. thought. 20 Mocking "quaedam speculationes Nicolaii de Cuesii", Ficino mentioned Cusanus's name only once in a Vespasiano da Bisticci characterized the Cardinal in his Vite di letter to Marcus Uranius. Pico della Mirandolo possessed at uomini illustri def secolo XV, by saying: ''Tedesco di nazione least one manuscript containing parts of De coniecturis. ma non di costumi - A Gennan by birth, but not by customs." Despite the evidence that there was very little immediate or no Martin Thurner took Vespasiano's dictum as title of his contact between Cusanus and the star philosophers, some introduction, in which he briefly sketched the changing articles in the volume stressed that Cusanus's ideas reached perception of Cusanus's genius suspended between Italian those philosophical and humanist circles via certain mediators, humanism and medieval Gennan mysticism over the past 500 who had firsthand knowledge of Cusanus and were them years. There was never agreement about whether and to what selves well rooted in the high society of Italian humanism. On extent these two poles in Cusanus were either reconciled or this score Vasoli dedicated the larger part of his lecture to rather out of balance. Ernst Cassirer, whose studies from the Paolo Pozzo Toscanefli and Pierleone da Spoleto, both doctors and mathematicians. Interested in humanist culture and thought from early on , both served as intermediaries 19 Johannes Helmrath, in: Recherches de Theologie et Philosophie between Medici Florence, Ficino and Cusanus. Toscanelli and Medievales 69 (2002) 215-224 ; ElisabethBlum, in: Freiburger Cusanus became friends already while studying in Padua. Zeitschrift fiir Philosophie und Theologie 48 (2001) 209-216; Pierleone da Spoleto, who was too young to meet Cusanus Markus Krienke, in : Miinchener Theo/ogische Zeitschrift 52 personally, held positions at the universities of Pisa and Padua (2001) 270-275; Idem, in: Rivista di Storia de/la Filosofia 57 (2002)253-256; Markus Riedenauer, in: Litterae Cusanae 1 and served as a doctor for Lorenzo de' Medici and was a close (2001) 93-94; Paolo Arfe, in: Bollettino de/la Societa Filosofica friend of Ficino and Pico. Pierleone, whose library was the ltaliana 174 (2001) 72-79; T. Perrone, in: Rivista de/la Filosofia object of a recent book by Maike Rotzoll, possessed at least Neoscolastica 93 (2001) 667-680; Christiane Schultz, in: 13 works of Cusanus, some even in doublets. Besides the Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch fiir Antike und Mitte/alter 6 mathematical writings, such as De circuli quadratura, De (2001) 259-262. Furthermore, scholarly reports about the conference appeared in various newspapers in Germany and Southern Tyrol. 20 Cesare Vasoli, "Niccolo Cusano e la cuttura umanistica fiorentina" {75-90). Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 39 American Cusanus Society Newsletter mathematicis comp/ementis, De geometricis which their respective authors tried to cope with the transmutacionibus etc .. there were also copies of De experience of Judaism and lslam.24 concordantia catholica, De visione Dei and De pace fidei. Ms. Rotzoll's article in this volume21 published and examined the Harald Schwaetzer undertook a comparison of the marginal notes of Pierleone on De pace fidei (in Vat. lat. 9425), anthropoiogies of Cusanus and Pico della Mirandola.25 The on De visione Dei (Vat.lat. 11520) and on De concordantia assumption that Pico could not have ignored Cusanus's catholica (Vat. lat. 5739). While the latter was glossed only writings presents the same problems that we have seen in superficially, the former two texts elicited long and frequent applying this theory to Ficino. There was hardly any historical glosses from Pierleone testifying to his lively interest in or philological evidence for Pico being influenced by Cusanus. Cusanus's theology. Despite Kristeller having stressed the ideological differences between both, Eusebio Colomer tried to establish some Giuseppe Girgenti went a long way back, invoking the late historical links nonetheless. His intention received further antique tradition of Neoplatonism, where the two beacons support through the research of Kurt Flasch and Maike Rotzoll. Porphyius and Jamblichus coined the two main neoplatc~ic Schwaetzer admitted in his article that, on the basis of the currents after Plotinus. As Girgenti indicated in the title c ':S imago Dei metaphor. there is complete agreement between paper, both must be seen as indirect sources for Cusanus. Pico and Cusanus about human autonomy: man is understood Alessandra Tarabochia Canavero, on the other hand, was as freely determining himself. Schwaetzer, however, argued on looking for a more obvious parallel between Cusanus's and purely philosophical-analytical ground that despite some Ficino's Platonism, suggesting the motif of the "hunt for wis similarities in their respective anthropologies, the way of dom". While Cusanus's De venatione sapientiae is well thinking in both philosophers was radically opposed. known, Ficino alluded to the motif only in passing in his late Apologia. 22 Ms. Tarabochia, however, did not claim a Another philosophical tradition that fascinated both Cusanus dependence between the two thinkers. Instead, she com and Italian Renaissance philosophers was Hermetism, which pared the respective understanding of spirit, amor and nexus received due attention in Paschale Arte's article. 26 Rather than in both authors, which revealed the different intentions of looking at the reception of Hermetism in Italian humanism, Cusanus and Ficino rather than a common ground. Such however, Arfe studied how Cusanus and before him Albert the common ground, however, was obvious in the attempts of Great received specific ideas from the Asclepius and how both authors to describe the idea of (natural} religion. Two Hermetism shaped their understanding of the relationship papers addressed this theme at the conference. Walter between God and world and man. Arfe pointed out that, among Andreas Euler compared and explained the notion of religion other things, Cusa's dialectic between complicatio and in both Ficino and Cusanus.23 He found striking structural explicatio owed much to his reading of the Asclepius. parallels in the idea of religio connata resp. religio communis in both authors. Particularly the assumption of a natural, It would be shortsighted to reduce the relations between Cusa though divinely instilled human desire to seek communion and Italy to the sole question what impact Cusanus's thought with God emerged as a common point of departure. The had on Renaissance Platonism. Cusanus spent long and more specific question, however, of whether Ficino received important periods of his life on Italian soil. From the earty this idea from Cusanus or of whether each of them took it days of his studies in Padua to his last years residing as a from different sources remained unsolved. The paper by cardinal in Rome, he was exposed continuously to Italian Paul Richard Blum addressed the specific problem of culture and humanism. A few papers shed further light on religious pluralism and a possible reconciliation among the these encounters. Hermann Schnarr's article may serve as an religions not only in Cusanus, but also in Ficino, Pico delta excellent survey, rich in details about the well known facts.27 Mirandola, Macchiavelli, Suarez and Campanella. In each of Cusa's formation in both Heidelberg and Padua, his efforts to these thinkers he identified a particular model of religion, by compete with the Italian philologists in finding new texts from 21 Maike Rotzoll, "'Un certo vesocovo da quelle parti .. .' Die 24 Paul Richard Blum, •salva fide et pace'. Religionsfriede von Cusanus-Handschriften in der Bibliothek des Medici-Arztes Cusanus bis CampaneUa" (527-554). Pierleone da Spoleto• (255-287). - See also Maike Rotzoll , 25 Harald Schwaetzer, "'Semen universale'. Die Anthropologie bei Pierleone da Spoleto. Vita ed opere di un medico de/ Nikolaus von Kues und Giovanni Pioo della Mirandola" (555- Rinascimento (Florence 2000). 574). 22 Alessandra Tarabochia Canavero, "Nicola Cusano e Marsilio 26 Paschale Arfe, "Alberto Magno e Nicola Cusano interpreti Ficiono a caccia della sapienza• (481-509). dell'Asclepius" (129-151). 23 Walter Andreas Euler, "Das Religionsverstandnis von Cusanus 27 Hermann Schnarr, "Fruhe Beziehungen des Nikolaus von Kues und Ficino" (511-526). zu itahenischen Humanisten" (187-213). Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 40 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Roman antiquity, and eventually his correspondence and least in the last years of his life.32 Repeating the results from scholarly exchange with Poggio Braciolini. Graziella Federici the magisterial article which P. 0. Kristeller wrote for the Vescovini depicted the University of Padua at the beginning conference in Brixen in 1964, Monfasani reported about of the 15rn century when Cusanus completed his legal studies Cusanus's early Greek encounters in Constantinople in 1437 there .2s In particular, she presented on a few Paduan artists and more importantly of his intellectual exchange wtth the engaging in physics and natural science such as Biagio circle of Bessarion in Rome. In 1458/59 Cusanus commis Pelacani da Parma, Prosdocimo de' Beldomandis and Piere sioned George of Trebizond to translate Plato's Parmenides. In d'Abano, people who may have nurtured Cusanus's interests the second part of his article Monfasani examined the numer in mathematics and astronomy. Wilhelm Baum critically ous marginal and interlinear notes of the only existing manu questioned the so-called humanist "friendship" between Enea script of this translation (Voltera, Guarnacci 6201 ). finding that Silvio Piccolomini and Cusanus, which has been invoked the cardinal's Greek "was good enough to make numerous frequently and still remains a stereotype.29 Looking carefully improvements". In an extended appendix (225-252) Monfasani at the correspondence between the two men, Baum offered a edited all the marginal notes of the Parmenides in MS quite different picture (not always without polemical under Guarnacci 6201, specifying their author, the Latin words tones). Although they appreciated each other, the relationship together with their Greek equivalents and an appreciation between Cusa and Enea was reserved rather than cordial. whether and how it changed or improved the translation. Four For Baum. Cusanus was a stubborn, politically not very well photographs convey a nice impression of Cusanus's editorial skilled parvenu, while Enea Silvio, sly and smart, understood efforts. to handle both people and problems much better than Cusanus and how to promote his case more successfully. At The studies presented so far looked at the Italian side of the end of his article, Baum provided a list of Enea's printed Cusanus rather than searching for his German origins. So letters to Cusanus from 1449 to 1460, edited by Wolkan and what about his German soul?33 Two studies in the volume in part recently by Baum himself. 30 investigated the influence of Meister Eckhart on Cusanus. Martin Thurner undertook it to retrieve a specific "philosophy of Gregorio Piaia examined Cusanus's critique of the Donatio gift" in both authors.34 Looking particularly at the awareness Constantini in the 3rd book of the Catholic Concordance.31 that being, understanding and mystical union are not products Building on the research of Domenico Maffei, Piaia of human initiative but graciously conferred, Thurner emphasized that doubts about the donation had already characterized Meister Eckhart's explanation of the divine birth emerged at the beginning of the 1Stn century. An important in the soul as a "philosophy of a gift". while in Cusanus the figure in this context was Raffaele Fulgosio, who taught civil divine gift appeared predominantly in the cognitive recapitula law at Padua from 1409 to 1427. He reported about a tion of God's self-manifestation. Thurner's approach is con controversy at the Council of Constance, where he himself vincing because he developed the entire movement of obviously defended the Donatio from a curialist standpoint. Cusanus's philosophy from a consequently theological stand Cusanus, who might have heard Fulgosio's lectures at Padua, point, i.e from the standpoint of God revealing himself to the presented his doubts about the historicity of the story rather mind. One could ask, however, to what extent such cautiously, in a way that Piaia labeled as ambiguous. "philosophy of gift" differs from a traditionally understood According to him, Cusanus wanted to fly a kite, testing the "theology of grace" that encompasses also the cognitive reactions of both the curialists and the king. Basically, powers of the soul? Walter Haug presented Cusanus's however, Cusanus did not intend to question the share of reception of Meister Eckhart (and his re-lecture) as a decisive authority agreed upon by pope and king. step towards modernity.JS John Monfasani provided new and striking evidence that 2 Cusanus had acquired a very good command of Greek, at J John Monfasani, "Nicholas of Gusa, the Byzantines, and the Greek Language" (215-252). 33 The "German· heritage of Cusanus was also addressed at the 28 Graziella Federici Vescovini, "Cusanus und das conference by Ruedi Imbach, who delivered a paper with the tide wissenschaftliche Studium in Padua zu Beginn des 15. "Die Basler Schriften des Heymerich de Campo und der Anfang Jahrhunderts" (93-113). der Philosophie des Nikolaus von Kues". For some reason, how 29 Wilhelm Baum, "Nikolaus von Kues und Enea Silvio Piccolomini ever, lmbach's paper, which presented unpublished texts by - eine Humanistenfreundschaft?" (315-337). Heymeric van der Velde, has not been induded into the present 30 Nikolaus von Kues, Briefe und Dokumente zum Brixener Streit, volume. hrsg. v. Wilhelm Baum und Raimund Senoner, Klagenfurt 2001. 34 Martin Thurner, "Die Philosophie der Gabe bei Meister Eckhart Jt Gregorio Piaia, "Tra ii Fulgosio e ii Valla: La critica del Cusano und Nikolaus Cusanus" (153-184). alla 'Donatio'" (115-128). 35 Walter Haug, "Nicolaus Cusanus zwischen Meister Eckhart und Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 41 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Overcoming the ontology of Meister Eckhart, who had upheld a very close reading of the first book and the first four chapters radical difference between the finite and infinite world, as well of the second book of De docta ignorantia , Enders highlighted as the Meister's twofold knowledge (secular vs. mystical), Cusanus's understanding of infinity ar.d the divine. Con Cusanus favored a philosophy that looked positively at the sequently he also examined the attack of Johannes Wenck on world . Knowledge is enabled by sense perception, but in the Cusanus's docta ignorantia who criticized Cusanus's coin act of knowing , man imitates God and creates his world. cidence of opposites from a Thomistic-Aristotelian standpoint. Human knowledge is creative; art and products of art "flow out" An examination of Cusanus' Apologia and De visione (chs. 13- from the mind. Haug discovered in these ideas an important 16) completed and refined Cusanus's doctrine of divine infinity. precursor to-if not the source for-Cristofaro Landino, Giordano Bruno, and Aretino, who proudly presented them Most of the studies in this volume emphasized Cusanus's selves as "creative" poets who created their world by their art "modernity" and therefore preferred to compare him to later and who started the new type of the ingenious modern artist. thinkers rather than conceiving of him as the endpoint of a long tradition. The perception of Cusanus on the threshold of While creation and creativity was not necessarily one of a new epoch was also the topic of Mauro Falcionrs and Cusanus's most favorite topics, "learned ignorance" repre Stephan Meier-Oeser's papers. The former reflected on Hans sented the apex of his early philosophical theology. Hans Blumenberg's thesis that Giordano Bruno, while relying on Gerhard Senger took up this theme in a brilliant way, com Cusanus's Trinitarian speculations, replaced the second paring Cusanus's "learned ignorance" to three other models of person of the Trinity by his idea of infinite worlds in the divine philosophical critique of knowledge. 36 Since Socrates's adage mind as the medium for creation.38 By comparing the "Scio quod nescio," ignorance has been understood as a understanding of anima mundi in Cusanus and in Bruno and qualified form, even a habltus of knowledge ("Wissensform"). by an exegesis of Cusanus's complicatio-explicatio model, Before turning to Cusanus, Senger presented Petrarca's Falcioni confronted Blumenberg's "eclipse of the Son" in critique on contemporary Aristotelianism (De sui ipsius et Bruno with an eclipse of the anima mundi in Cusanus. With a multorum ignorantia) . Petrarca's presumed ignorance was a concise extract of his book on the reception of Cusanus from critique of the uncritically invoked authority of Aristotle a the the 15111 to the 18111 century, Stephan Meier-Oeser focused on universities in his time, a milieu he never belonged to. As an the two centers of humanism north of the Alps: Paris (Lefevre alternative and true form of knowledge Petrarca recommended d'Etaples) and Vienna (Konrad Celtis).39 While the Germans his moral philosophy of the "bene vivere". Cusanus's De docta on the Danube developed more interest in Cusanus's mathe ignorantia, on the other hand, emerged from the tradition of matical writings, the French, along with some Germans who Augustine and Bonaventure, where ignorance was not a moral, maintained close contacts to the Parisian circle (e.g. but a cognitive quality. As a third model, Senger introduced Reuchlin, Agrippa, Eck), preferred his mystical theology. Heinrich Agrippa of Nettesheim (De incertitudine et vanitate Despite the considerable familiarity of some French humar scientiarum et artium), whose embittered critique of his col ists with Cusanus's writings and thought (e.g. Gerard Rus ' ')I, leagues at the University of Cologne reached even pathologic Charles de Bovelles, Alain de Varene), this interest did not forms. Agrippa's radical skepticism allowed only for faith and develop into a real Cusanus "school" or a distinct "Cusanism" revelation to provide reliable knowledge. The last example of in the 16th century. Cusanus's impact on 16th century ignorance as a metaphor of knowledge was Erasmus who mathematics was also the object of Luciana de Bernart's developed a subtle irony and even sarcasm against the article. 4o She examined in great detail the discussions about wisdom of his day (Laus stultitiae, 1511). For him, ignorance the theories of the squaring of the circle both in Cusanus and as voluntary silliness was ambivalent; it had a positive and a in the 16th century. Cusanus enjoyed a high reputation negative side, either as dumb blindness or as wise knowledge among 16~ century European mathematicians, also because about someone's own limits. The cure for such ignorance, however, was the stultitia crucis, which solved the philo Cusanus" {383441 ). sophical problem by a tum into religion. Cusanus's De docta 38 ignorantia was also the object of Markus Enders's extended Mauro Falcioni, "Cusano e Bruno: Considerazioni al margine de 37 'Aspekte der Epochenschwelle'" {601-615). study, actually the longest in the whole volume. Through a 39 Stephan Meier-Oeser, "Die Cusanus-Rezeption in deutschen Renaissancehumanismus" (617-632). - See also Id,, Die Cristoforo Landino: Der Mensch als Schopfer und der Weg zu Prasenz des Vergessenens. Zur Rezeption der Philosophie des Gott" (577-600). Nicolaus Cusanus vom 15. bis zum18. Jahmundert (Munster: 36 Hans Gerhard Senger, "Nichtwissen als Wissensform. Aschendorff, 1989), Buchreihe der Cusanus-Gesellschaft, 10. lgnoranzkompensationen von Petrarca bis Erasmus"(633-653). 40 Luciana de Bemart, "Cusano e l'archimedismo del rinascirnento. 37 Markus Enders, "Unendlichkeit und All-Einheit. Zurn lbridazioni teoriche, eredita contese, sperimentazioni e Unendlichkeitsgedanken in der philosophischenTheologie des polemiche nella matematica europea del xvii secolo" (339-381). Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 42 American Cusanus Society Newsletter his mathematical works had been available in print since The volume "Nicolaus Cusanus zwischen Oeutschland und 1488, while Archimedes's works appeared in print only 50 ltalien" offers a refreshing orientation on the status of current years later. Even after that time, Cusanus mediated much of scholarship on Cusanus and Humanism, Cusanus and medieval Archimedism into the ear1y modem period. De Renaissance philosophy, as well as on the medieval roots of Bemart discussed the reactions to Cusanus's interpretation the cardinal's philosophical theology. Moreover, it broadens of Archimedes in Luca Pacioli, Regiomontanus (Johannes our knowledge about the multifaceted world in which Muller), Buteus (Jean Borre!), Fabrizio Mordente, and others. Cusanus lived and actively engaged. In many aspects, these studies opened new horizons, questioning old prejudices and An unexpected aspect of Cusanus's thought was presented introducing new interpretations. The only area that did not by Francesco Santi, who looked at the theory of music to receive due attention was Cusanus's first profession as a which Cusanus briefly referred in De coniecturis 11, 2, where jurist and, closely connected, his ecclesiology. His legal he used the example of halftones to illustrate his theory of expertise, acquired during his studies in Padua, provided the conjectures. 41 Cusanus's ideas on halftones never attracted basis not only for his ecclesiology and political theory, but particular scholarly interest, because he seemed to para also for his actions as lawyer, papal legate, bishop and phrase a passage from Boethius's De institutione musica. cardinal. Aldo Landi's paper about Cusanus as a reformer in Santi, however, put it within the context of a lively controversy Basel, fell short of grasping the complexity of Church reform about Boethius's explanation of halftones in the 1420s, a discussed at Basel and Cusanus's role therein.43 - Short bios controversy in which Cusanus's teachers Pelacani and of the contributors and an index of persons conclude the Beldomani played a prominent role. At that time scholars and volume, which must not be neglected by any serious scholar musicians like Giovanni Legrense de Namur, Vittorino da of the famous cardinal philosopher, who was "German by Feltre, Barolomeo Ramos de' Pareja and William Dufay birth, but Italian by customs.• developed a new understanding of halftones, which ultimately carried a new theory of music in general. On this backdrop Cusanus's text in De coniecturis appears as an example that was rather modem in his time and testifies to his susceptibility Martin Thurner to new developments during his college years. Santi also Gott als portrayed the vibrant culture of music and musical theories from the ear1y 1400s, not only in northern Italian universities, das off en bare Geheimnis but also at the pontifical court of Nicholas V. nach Nikolaus von Kues In the first years after Cusanus's death, his reputation owed much to the eulogy of Andrea de Bussi, his last secretary and a famous humanist himself, as Leandro Perini pointed out anew.42 Bussi inserted his praises of the cardinal in the dedicatory letter to the Opera of L. Apuleius, which appeared in print in 1469. He emphasized Cusanus's erudition as a historian rather than as a humanist, but also highlighted his merits as a mathematician and as an expert in Platonic philosophy. Bussi's panegyric was reprinted in the three earliest editions of Cusanus' works (Stra~burg 1488, Cortemaggiore 1502, and Paris 1512), each time, however, with slight alterations that stressed different qualities of the cardinal. In these prologues to his Opera, Cusanus's image changed from a Platonist to a defender of Aristotelianism, to a church reformer in the editions of the 16th century. AkaJcmic VcrLi~ 2001 41 Francesco Santi, "Congetture su numero armonia e musica. Cusano e la trattatistica musicale italiana del suo tempo." (463- 479). 42 Leandro Perini, "Niccolo da Cusano nello spechio delle sue 43 Aldo Landi, "Niccol6 Cusano, riformatore a Basilea" (305-313). edizioni" (289-301 ). Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 43 American Cusanus Society Newsletter SE~ECTED RECE~T PUBLICATIONS We would be very pleased to receive »om members and Nicolas de Cusa, Ace~a de la docta ignorancia. J. M. friends offprints of their newly published articles about Machetta & C. D'Amico, trans. Buenos Aires: Editorial Cusanus and related topics, so that they may be listed in the Biblos, 2003-2004. series of publications in each issue of the newsletter. Naturally, we would also welcome new books and other Nicolas de Cusa, Ace~a de la docta ignorancia. Vol.II: Lo publications by our members and friends. maximo contracto o universo (edici6n bilingue), Jorge M. Machetta, Claudia D'Amico and Silvia Manzo, tr. Buenos The Editor wishes to thank sincerely those members and Aires: Editorial Biblos, 2004. 158 pp. friends who have kindly sent him their recent publications. The following selections include books and articles by our members that are not direcHy related to Cusanus studies. Some books that were already listed in the previous issues of the newsletter are included here again because they were recently reviewed in major scholarly journals. They are marked with an asterisk n The Editor wishes to emphasize that, thanks to the attention Nicolas de Cusa and care of our Special Advisor, Dr. Thomas M. lzbicki, im portant books have gone into the following list of publications. Acerca de la docta ignorancia l..ibro II: Lo maximo contracto o universo PRIMARY SOURCES AND TRANSLATIONS (l!dici6n blllngue) Nicholas of Cusa lntroducci6n. traducdon y notas Nicolai de Gusa Opera omnia, iussu et auctoritate Jorge M. Machetta. Claudia D'Amico y Silvia Manzo Academiae Litterarum Heidelbergensis ad codicum fidem edita, XVIII: Sermones Ill (1452-1455), fasciculus 4: sermones CLXXVI - CXCll. Ed. Silvia Donati, Harald Schwaetzer and Franz-Bernhard Stammkotter. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2004. 275-387 pp. • I I , , < ~l'h°lthh1 -~'tf•,nHlt1'• ::!~\t\\11·1~1ft·· · •U· "t ULVIA DONATI 2003. X'IN, 407 pp. $29.95. HAAA.Lt> ICHWASTZ'l':I PRANZ•lllJllHAID ITAMNKOTTBI Thomas von Aquin. Commentar zum Trinitatstraktat des Boethius I. Lateinisch-Deutsch. [Herders Philosophische ~:, . ', . ~.- Bibliothek des Mittelalters, Band 3.] Freiburg: Herder, 2005. 288 pp. €37,-. "'J ..... · HAM Ill ROI Giovanr.i Boccacio. Famous Women. Ed. and trans. Virginia Bro1.A.in :Tue I Tatti Renaissance Library. 1.] Cambridge, MA MMIV & London: Harvard University Press, 2003. XYN, 530 pp. $29.95 Volume XXI, Number 2 December 2004 44 American Cusanus Society Newsletter Crispin, Gilbert. Religionsgesprache mit einem Juden und No. 25.] Lanham , MD and Oxford: The Scarecrow Press , einem Heiden. Lateinisch-Deutsch. [Herders Philosophische 2003. xxiv, 273 pp . $65.00. [BR: The Catholic Historical Bibliothek des Mittelalters, Band 1.] Freiburg : Herder, 2005 . Review, XC , 4 (October, 2004) : 755-756 (Thomas E. 208 pp . €32,-. Madden).] The Letters of Gregory the Great. Trans . John R. C. Martyn. Sullivan, Thomas O.S.B. Parisian Licentiates in Theology: [Medieval Sources in Translation 40.] Pontifical Institute of A.D. 1373-1500. A Biographical Register. Vol. 1: The Medieval Studies, 3 vol., 2004. xxxiv, 996 pp . $95.00 Religious Orders. [Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vol. 18.] Leiden: Brill, 2004. xii, Raimond Lullus, Opera Latina, 53: Tabula genera/is in mari in 465 pp . $121.00. [BR: The Catholic Historical Review, XC, 4 portu Tunicii in medio Septembris anno MCCXC/11 incepta et (October 2004) 774-776 (James K. Farge, C.S.B.).] in ciuitate Neapolis in octauis Epiphaniae anno MCCXCIV ad finem perducta. Ed . Viola Tenge-Wolf. [Corpus Wegemer, Gerard B. and Stephen W. Smith , eds. A Thomas Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis, 181 ; Raimundi Lulli More Source Book. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Opera Latina, 27.] Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. pp. 204, 260. University of America Press, 2004. 427 pp. $34.95. [BR: Speculum, 80, 1 (January 2005), 266-268 (J. N. Hillgarth).] BOOKS Giannozzo Manetti. Biographical Writings. Ed. & trans . Stefano Ugo Baldassarri and Rolf Bagemihl. [The I Tatti Nicholas of Cusa Renaissance Library 9.] Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 2003. xix, 330 pp. Hoye, William J. Die mystische Theologie des Nicolaus Cusanus. [Forschungen zur europaischen Marsilio Ficino. Platonic Theology, Volume 4. (Books XI/ Geistesgeschichte, Band 5.] Freiburg/Basel/Wien: Herder, XIV). Trans. Michael B. Allen, ed . James Hankins and 2004. 202 pp. William Bowen . [The I Tatti Renaissance Library, 13.] Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 384 pp. Kortenkamp, Gottfried. Die Urkunden des St. Nikolaus $29.95/£19.95. Hospitals in Bemkastel-Kues an der Mosel. [Geschichte und Kultur des Trierer Landes 3.] Bernkastel-Kues: St. Nikolaus lbn Sab'in. Die Sizilianischen Fragen. Arabisch-Deutsch. Hospital/Cusanusstift, [Sold by Trier: Kliomedia Verlag], [Herders Philosophische Bibliothek des Mittelalters, Band 2.] 2004. 399 pp. €65,00. Freiburg: Herder, 2005. 250 pp. Ca. €34. Voss, Wolfgang. 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Medieval Academy News: Spring 2005 reports on a new web site on music and the Devotie Modema: Volume XXI , Number 2 December 2004 49 American Cusanus Society Newsletter The American Gus ,- '"' Society Newsletter is published twice a year by the American Cusanus Society, Long Island Univer C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY 11548. Editor: Morimichi Watanabe. Special Advisor: Tr .3S M. lzbicki. Editorial Associate: Christopher M. Bellitto. The officers of the American Cusanus S-..>ciety are: Executive Committee Christopher M. Bellitto Clyde Lee Miller Kean University SUNY at Stony Brook • James E. Biechler Morimichi Watanabe President La Salle University (ex officio) Morimichi Watanabe Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus H. Lawrence Bond Gerald Christianson Appalachian State University (ex officio) Lawrence F. Hundersmarck Peter J. Casarella Vice Presidents• Pace University (ex officio) Gerald Christianson Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary Thomas M. lzbicki Donald F. Duclow Peter J. 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