Volume 23, Number 16 · October 14, 1976
The Mystery of Jean Bodin
By Frances A. Yates
Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime (Colloquium Heptaplomeres de Rerum Sublimium Arcanis Abditis) annotations, and critical readings by
by Jean Bodin, translated with an introduction, Marion Leathers Daniels Kuntz
Princeton University Press, 509 pp., $25.00
The book here presented in translation was once a secret, disseminated in manuscript copies among a few chosen spirits, and referred to with bated breath, if mentioned at all, though it may have been a power in the background, or the underground. It is in fact the Heptaplomeres, written by Jean Bodin in the late sixteenth century. The Latin text was not printed until 1857. A partial French translation appeared in 1914. There has been no English translation until now, when the Heptaplomeres in full is at last revealed to the English-speaking world.
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