Présence d’Hermès Trismégiste

This Collection offers an array of studies, reflections, practical references, texts and documents related to Alexandrian Hermetism

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The Corpus Hermeticum, which according to esoteric tradition was purportedly created by Hermes Trismegistus, is an ensemble of some fifteen books written in Alexandria in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries AD. At the dawn of the Renaissance, their translation into Latin by Marsile Ficin ensures their continued, prodigious success, studies and reflections on them are brought together in this work and pinpoint their critical moments. This Collection opens with an overview of assorted practical references. What follows is a series of texts and documents which bear witness to the iconographic and literary presence of the Thrice Great from the 15th Century until the beginning of the 19th Century, then a chapter offering an explanation of his presence in Islam where he appears under the name Idris. Numerous contributions are dedicated to the way this Alexandrian Hermetism was received in Renaissance Italy and France. In fact, the famed text said to be of the Emerald Tablet, of at least 1000 years of age and signed “Hermes Trismegistus”, is continually evoked here through an alchemical design accompanied by an enigmatic text which went through a number of versions but had never, until now, been subject to any joint study.