Theology as Poetry in John Wenck’s Commentary
to the De coelesti hierarchia:
Sources of a Quasi-­Humanist Idea
in 15th-­Century Heidelberg

Andrés García-­Rengifo

doi:10.3280/SF2024-003005

Theology as Poetry in John Wenck’s Commentary to the De coelesti hierarchia: Sources of a Quasi-Humanist Idea in 15th-Century Heidelberg

Journal title RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA
Author/s Andrés García-Rengifo
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/3
Language English Pages 29 P. 582-610 File size 353 KB
DOI 10.3280/SF2024-003005
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In the second question of his commentary to the De coelesti hierarchia (BAV, Cod. Pal. lat. 149), while discussing Pseudo-Dionysius’ appraisal of symbols, John Wenck inserts a long and well-informed consideration of poetry that has no precedent in the commentary tradition and points to a peculiar reception of Aristotle’s Poetics. The paper sets to investigate the sources of Wenck’s position on poetry, as well as the reasons by which he harmonizes it with the theological contents of the commentary. In this regard, Wenck’s notes on poetry (BAV, Cod. Pal. lat. 1590) and marginalia to Hermann Alemannus’s translation of Averroes’s Expositio poeticae (BAV, Cod. Pal. lat. 1892) are studied for the first time. Furthermore, Wenck’s peculiar character is displayed by reflecting on the manner in which his views on poetry lead him to endorse and incorporate the tenets of Renaissance humanists like Peter Luder.

Keywords: Defense of poetry, Poetics, Albertism, Eriugenism, German Renaissance, Ps-Dionysius, Averroes, Scotus Eriugena, Hermannus Alemmanus, Peter Luder.

Andrés García-Rengifo, Theology as Poetry in John Wenck’s Commentary to the De coelesti hierarchia: Sources of a Quasi-Humanist Idea in 15th-Century Heidelberg in "RIVISTA DI STORIA DELLA FILOSOFIA" 3/2024, pp 582-610, DOI: 10.3280/SF2024-003005

Theology as Poetry in John Wenck’s Commentary to the De coelesti hierarchia: Sources of a Quasi-­Humanist Idea in 15th-­Century Heidelberg

Theology as Poetry in John Wenck’s Commentary to the De coelesti hierarchia: Sources of a Quasi-Humanist Idea in 15th-Century Heidelberg