TO THE KIND READER

THE BRESCIAN EDITORS.

Theological writings, which commonly circulate under the name of DIONYSIUS THE AREOPAGITE Dionysius was a judge of the Areopagus in Athens converted by St. Paul. While these influential mystical texts were long attributed to him, modern scholars identify the author as a 5th-century writer known as Pseudo-Dionysius., and indeed belong to Christian antiquity, were published quite late—specifically in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries—by the presses of Florence, Antwerp, and Paris original: "Lutetiæ". Furthermore, Antonio Zatta published these same works in Venice original: "Venetiis" in the year 1757 in Greek, and with Corderius Balthasar Corderius (1592–1650) was a Jesuit scholar famous for his translations of Greek Church Fathers into Latin. as the Latin translator. This Venetian edition surpassed all previous ones—even those of Antwerp and Paris—not only for the sake of its accuracy, but also because it was enriched with variant readings taken from a manuscript Codex A "codex" is a hand-written book from the ancient or medieval period, rather than a printed one. in the Library of St. Mark The famous Bibliotheca Marciana in Venice..

However, at the present time, if one considers the needs of scholars, the copies of these Works that are available here and there are very rare and indeed of a great price. Therefore, we have resolved [to publish] these same Works exactly as the most faithful Corderius rendered them into Latin, and with skill—