Corpus Hermeticum reaches Medici Florence

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• Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Routledge pp. 15-16 · open book

  It is very improbable that Clement knew any of the Hermetica which have come down to us,3 but the Renaissance reader believed that he had in the Corpus Hermeticum and the Asclepius precious sur- vivors of that great sacred library of which Clement speaks. About 1460, a Greek manuscript was brought to Florence from Macedonia by a monk, one of those many agents employed by Cosimo de' Medici to collect manuscripts for him. It contained a copy of the Corpus Hermeticum, not quite a complete copy, for it included fourteen only of the fifteen treatises of the collection, the last one being missing.

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