✍️ Author Biography
Daniel Banes
📅 1466 – 1540
🌍 Italian
📚 1 free book
Francesco Giorgi Veneto (1466–1540) was an Italian Minim friar, and author of the work De harmonia mundi totius from 1525. In it, Giorgio proposed an idea of the Universe created according to the universal system of proportion, which may be studied as laws of mathematics used by architects. The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy describes him as 'idiosyncratic'. He wrote also In Scripturam Sacram Problemata (1536).
Giorgi is extensively discussed in Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy …