De pace fidei
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~14,700 words · 70 passages
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- APANicholas of Cusa. (n.d.). De pace fidei. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/nicholas-of-cusa/de-pace-fidei
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What it is about
On the Peace of Faith (1453): written weeks after the fall of Constantinople.
Context and history
While Europe called for crusade, Cusanus imagines a council in heaven where the representatives of every religion discover they are arguing about rites and not about faith. 'One religion in a variety of rites' is the formula. It is among the bravest texts of the fifteenth century. Text in LATIN: Cusanus's original, and the version to cite.
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poteft:qúūin id quod intelligitur efeante omne principiatum fit æternum, VERa BVM, Eftergopricipium, ITALVS, Itaeft, VERBVM. Ergo fimplicifimű, omne eni compofitum:eft pricipiatum,componentia eni non poffunt effe poft coma pofitum; ITALVS, Fateor, VERBVM, Sapientia ígitur:eft æternitas, IT A-LVS, Nechocaliter effepotet, VERBVM, Non elt autem poffibile plures effe æternítates : quía ante omnem pluralitatem eft vnitas, ITALVS, Negíid quifä díffitebíitur. VERBVM, Eftígitut fapientía:deusivnus/fimplexiæternusiprin cipiumomnium; ITALVS. Ita effe necefeeft, VERBVM, Eccequomodo vos variarum fe&arum philofophi:ín religione vnius dei quem omnes præfupponítíis: ineo vos amatores fapientiæ profiteminíi/concordatis, ig Icarabs exorfus refpõdit, Nihil clarius nec verius dici poteft, VERBVM 1 Sicut autem vos profiteminí ex eo p amatores fapiétiæ/abfolutã fapiétiã: j \putatifne homines itelleãu vigétes nő amare fapíentiam? ARABS, Puto veriflime omnes holes natura appetere fapientiam,cû fapientia fit víta Ítelleãtus:q alio cibo ĝ verítate/& verbo vitæ feu pane fno itelle&tuali iqui fapiétia eft! í víta fua DIALOGVS. FO.CXVÌ,