The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1401–1500
6 works
1439
Greek
Basilios Bessarion · 1403–1472
An argument to the Greek delegation at Florence that the Latin and Greek fathers say the same thing about the Spirit in different words, and that union is therefore honest.
1438–1444
Greek
Mark of Ephesus · 1392–1444
The encyclicals and treatises of the one Greek bishop at Florence who refused to sign the union, on the filioque, purgatory, and the impossibility of agreement by formula.
c. 1440–1454
Latin
Summa Theologica Moralis
Antoninus of Florence · 1389–1459
Moral theology for a commercial city, treating banking, exchange, partnership, wages, and the just price with the detail of someone who heard merchants' confessions.
1474
Latin
Marsilio Ficino · 1433–1499
An argument that religion is natural to humanity and that Christianity perfects what the Platonists and the ancient sages half-saw.
1494
Italian
Girolamo Savonarola · 1452–1498
Advent sermons preached as the French army entered Italy, reading the prophet's call to rebuild the temple as a summons to remake Florence as a Christian republic.
1497
Latin
Girolamo Savonarola · 1452–1498
A defence of Christianity by reason alone, arranged around the image of a triumphal chariot bearing Christ, written at the height of the author's power in Florence.
6 of 1774 works