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BY FRANCESCO GIORGIO

THE VENETIAN

OF THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR original: "Minoritanae Familiae"; this refers to the Franciscans, the religious order to which Giorgio belonged.

ON THE HARMONY

OF THE WHOLE WORLD

THREE

C A N T I C L E S

original: "Cantica Tria"; Giorgio structured this massive philosophical and mystical work into three "songs" or major sections, using musical and mathematical metaphors to describe the divine order of the universe.

Paris, at the house of Christian Wechel, 1545.? original: "Lutetiæ apud Christianum Wechelum"; Lutetia is the Latin name for Paris. Wechel was a well-known 16th-century printer known for publishing works of humanism and science.