N

Names and naming in the petrose,157 –164;

of God, 6 , 15 –17, 157 –163, 341 , 384 –385, 391 –395

Narcissus, 105 , 196 –197, 226 , 372 , 389 , 416

Nardi, Bruno, 37 , 53 –54, 74 , 230 , 338 , 339 , 340 , 343 , 345 , 347 , 349 , 351 , 353 , 365 , 371 , 385 , 394 , 405 –406, 424 , 425 , 426

Nathan, prophet, 442

Nebuchadnezzar, 382

Neoplatonism:

Boethius and, 12 –18;

in the Commedia,68 –69, 200 –258 passim;

Dante's knowledge of, 8 –9, 12 , 26 –31, 53 –54, 60 , 62 , 67 –69, 339 –340, 344 –349;

doctrine of division, 62 , 341 , 344 –345;

doctrine of emanation, 54 , 68 –69, 338 –339, 365 , 393 –395;

doctrine of Ideas, 14 , 16 , 334 –335;

doctrine of man as midpoint, see Midpoint;

doctrine of Mind, 125 , 229 , 335 , 427 (see also Angels);

doctrine of the One, 13 –17, 229 ;

doctrine of participation, 443 ;

doctrine of procession and return, 14 –18, 60 , 62 , 64 , 66 –68, 159 , 186 –187, 208 –209, 226 –230, 233 , 242 , 250 –251, 334 , 335 , 341 ;

doctrine of World-Soul, 14 –16, 124 –125, 349 ;

in "Donne ch' avete," 55 –70;

grammar and metaphysics, relation of in, 18 , 227 ;

of Greek fathers, 53 , 64 , 67 , 334 –335, 344 –349;

theories of light in, 160 –162;

and the Timaeus,97 –99;

view of Christ in, 48 ;

view of number in, 269 –271, 336 , 242

Neptune, 196

Neri, Ferdinando, 349

Neugebauer, Otto, 362

Night circle, 352 –353;

in "Al poco giorno," 146 , 211 , 353

Nock, Arthur D., 347

Nominalist-Realist debate, 395

Norden, Eduard, 334

North, J. D. N., 353

North Pole, 351

Numa Pompilius, 424

Numerals, Arabic, 8 , 332

Numerology:

in Boethius, 336 ;

in the Commedia,211 , 419 , 427 ;

in Macrobius, 336 ;

in the petrose,126 , 132 , 144 –145, 269 –271, 380 –381, 385 –386, 392 , 442