A

Aaron, 132 , 397

Abrams, Richard, 418

Act, and potency, 93 , 113 , 117 , 374 –376, 395

Actaeon, 378

Adam, 94 , 132 , 237 , 241 , 247 , 270 , 361 –364, 423 , 433

Adamo, Maestro, 199 , 417

Adam of St. Victor, 231 , 425

Adynaton (rhetorical figure), 115 , 126 –129, 132 , 162 , 253 –254, 381 , 382 , 437

Aeneas, 175 , 182 –184, 192 , 195 , 263 , 382 , 407 –409, 420

Aglianò, Sebastiano, 264

Air, sphere of, 213 ;

and the eye, 389 –390

Alain of Lille, 88 , 168 , 341 ;

Anticlaudianus,360 , 426 ;

De planctu Naturae,381 , 399 , 400

Alaur. See Zodiac

Alba (dawn song), 239 , 246

Alberigo, Frate, 220 , 221 –222

Albertus Magnus, 36 –45, 200 , 366 , 371 ;

De animalibus,374 , 418 ;

De causis et processu universitatis,339 , 349 ;

De homine, 402 –403;

De natura loci,338 ;

In librum de anima,381 ;

In librum de causis,347 ;

Mineralium liber,37 –45, 274 , 338 –339, 367 –368, 375 , 377 , 388 , 395 –396, 416 , 424 , 437 , 438 , 443 ;

Physica, 374 –375;

Super Dionysium de divinis nominibus,341 , 343 , 391 , 393 –394, 411

Alexander of Hales, 347

Alfonsi, Luigi, 18

Alfonsine tables, 7

Alfonso X of Spain, 362

Alhazen, 412

Alighieri, Dante. See Dante

Alighieri, Gemma di Manetto de' Donati, 2 , 47 , 332

Alighieri, Iacopo di Dante, 332

Alighieri, Pietro di Dante, 332

Allard, Guy-H., 341

Allegory, in the petrose,128 , 173 –175, 181 –183

Allers, Rudolf, 332

Alpetragius, 349

Alpha and Omega, 15 –17, 187 , 235 , 241 , 335 –336

Amor (god), 165 , 180 –183, 192 –193, 407 ;

as enemy of lover's life, 170 –179, 183 –185;

as military commander, 406 –407;

relation to Christ, 150 –153, 392 –393;

as simulacrum, 182 ;

sources of, 180 –181;

weapons of, 413

Amor (term), 180 , 392

Amos, Book of, 382 –383, 436

Amphion, 168 , 219 –223, 244 , 399 , 424

Analogy:

in names of God, 390 ;

in order of terms, 162 –163;

of proportion, 395

Anaphora, 17 , 105 , 177 , 178 , 351 , 372

Anchises, 183 , 263 , 337

Andreas Capellanus, De amore,371 , 402

Andrieu, Michel, 440

Angelitti, Filippo, 352

Angels:

as heavenly movers, 35 –36, 39 –42, 86 , 229 –232, 366 –368, 418 ;

relation to God, 36 –42

Angiolieri, Cecco, 404

Annunciation, 244 , 247 , 425 , 434 ;

date of, 206

Antaeus, 218 , 223 , 249

Antiphrasis, 175 , 419

Antistrophe:

in astronomy, 123 , 135 –136;

in choral ode, 30 –31;

in rhetoric, 123 , 136 , 178 , 372

Aphrodite, 353

Apocalypse of St. John, 135 , 267 , 270 , 431

Apokatastasis, 251 , 437

Apollo, 120 , 214 , 255 –256. See also Sun

Apostles, 94 , 242 , 247 ;

compared to heavenly bodies, 368 –369

Apostrophe, 158 –161, 392

Aquarius (zodiacal sign), 213 , 216 , 423

Aquinas, St. Thomas (character), 237

Aquinas, Thomas, 339 ;

astrological views of, 34 –36, 43 –45, 366 , 382 ;

De veritate,367 ;

In Aristotelis librum de anima commentarium,371 , 380 –381, 414 , 423 , 426 ;

In librum dionysium de divinis nominibus,

Aquinas, Thomas

341 , 342 –343, 384 ;

Summa contra gentiles,367 , 390 , 398 ;

Summa theologica,338 , 390 , 391 , 392 , 395 , 409 , 410 , 413 , 425 , 426 ;

Super librum de causis,347 , 365

Arc of life, 74 , 429

Aries (constellation), 249

Aries (zodiacal sign), 78 , 198 , 205 –208, 242 , 249 , 252 , 351 , 356 , 374 , 419 , 435

Aristotle:

as auctor, 242 ;

on color, 389 ;

doctrine of unmoved mover, 14 , 158 ;

on formation of minerals, 34 –36;

on generic and particular, 58 ;

on heavenly spheres, 38 , 388 ;

on intelligence in Nature, 42 ;

on primacy of heart, 371 ;

on semen, tumescence, and orgasm, 82 , 371 , 374 ;

De anima, 43 –44, 366 , 371 ;

De caelo, 351 ;

De generatione animalium,374 ;

De generatione et corruptione,374 ;

De insomniis,412 ;

Metaphysics,374 –375;

Meteorologica,34 ,

Mineralogica,338 ;

Physics, 44 , 269 , 391 –392, 442 ;

Politics, 400 ;

Problemata,353

Armstrong, A. H., 334

Arnaldo da Villanova, 406

Arnold of Saxony, 338

Arnulf of Orleans, 378 , 415

Arrow and teleology, 185 –191, 404 , 407 , 409 –413

Art, human:

affected by astrological influences, 43 –45, 94 , 107 , 147 , 246 , 386 ;

analog of influence of heavens, 41 –45, 94 , 147 –148, 162 –163, 230 –232, 367 –369.

See also Sciences

Ascanius, 408

Astrology, in the petrose,8 –9, 72 –74, 76 , 78 , 79 –107, 94 , 142 –143, 147 , 150 –151, 246

Auctores, Dante and his, 239 –243

Auerbach, Erich, 337 , 382

Augustine of Hippo, 335 , 402 –403;

City of God,270 , 413 –414, 433 ;

Confessions,158 , 184 , 186 , 367 –369, 387 , 391 , 410 –411, 413 –414;

De doctrina christiana,390 ;

De Genesi ad litteram,224 , 424 ;

De trinitate,269 ;

Enarrationes in Psalmos,424

Austin, H. D., 375 , 376 , 381

Averroës, 349 , 365 , 366 , 371 , 441

Avicenna, 54 , 338 , 349 , 365