Bernard Silvestris
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Bernard Silvestris, also known as Bernardus Silvestris, was a Spanish born Medieval platonist magician and poet, author of the Cosmographia, which influenced Chaucer and others with the pioneering use of allegory to discuss metaphyscial and scientific questions.
Works
- Cosmographia Modern edition published by Columbia University Press (ISBN 0231096259)
- Commentary on the First Six Books of the Aeneid of Virgil (commonly attributed to Bernard) Modern edition published by Books on Demand (ISBN 0608015431) (1977)
Bibliography
- Dronke, Peter. Bernard Silvestris: Nature and Personification in Intellectuals and Poets in Medieval Europe. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1992. pp. 41-61.
- Desmond, Marilynn. Bernardus Silvestris and the Corpus of the Aeneid in The Classics in the Middle Ages. Aldo S. Bernardo and Saul Levin, eds. Binghamton, N.Y.: Centre for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1990
- Jones, J(ulian) W(ard). The So-Called Silvestris Commentary on the Aeneid and Two Other Interpretations. Speculum 64. (1989): 838-48.