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ACHILLEAS A. STAMATIADIS ACHILLEAS A. STAMATIADIS
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HEAVENLY AND TERRESTRIAL APHRODITE : FROM PRE-SOCRATIC TO VICTORIAN TIMES
‘La sancta dea madre et della volante cupido’, an illumination of Cupid and Venus from a manuscript of Boccaccio’s variation of ‘Florio e Biancifiore’. The manuscript’s illumination is attributed to Pietro Guindaleri. c. 1464 CE, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Ital. 85, fol. 25r (detail).
HEAVENLY AND TERRESTRIAL APHRODITE: FROM PRE-SOCRATIC TO VICTORIAN TIMES
With a foreword by Guy P. Smoot (PhD)
Achilleas A. Stamatiadis holds a BA from Northeastern University in Government and International Affairs. He is Harvard GSAS program alumnus having spent a research year in Cambridge Mass focusing on Comparative literature and Classical studies and holds an MA in Comparative Literature, Classics and Leadership from the University of Chicago. A section of his MA thesis has been published by UPenn’s Classical studies journal.
Book illumination by Attavante degli Attavanti, from Marsilio Ficino’s preface to his Latin translation of Plotinus’s Enneads, dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici, The Magnificent. Florentine Manuscript, 1491, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 82.10, fol. 3r (detail).