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5 unusual facts about Bernard Silvestris


Bernard Silvestris

There is evidence of influence in the works of medieval and renaissance authors, including Hildegard of Bingen, Vincent of Beauvais, Dante, Chaucer, Nicolas of Cusa, and Boccaccio.

André Vernet, who edited Bernard's Cosmographia, believed that he lived from 1085 to 1178; the only certain date in his life is 1147, when the Cosmographia was supposedly presented to Pope Eugene III.

Among the works attributed to Bernard later in the Middle Ages were a commentary on Virgil's Aeneid (Bernard's authorship of which has been questioned by modern scholars) and a commentary on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii.

There is little evidence connecting Silvestris to Chartres - this is supported by Poole - even though there was a letter of dedication to Thierry, who became Chancellor of Chartres in 1141.

Silvestris

Bernard Silvestris, a Medieval Platonist philosopher and poet of the 12th century


Matthew of Vendôme

Matthew of Vendôme (Matheus or Matthaeus Vindocinensis) was a French author of the thirteenth century, writing in Latin, who had been was a pupil of Bernard Silvestris, at Tours, as he himself writes.


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