The infinite in Cusanus’ cosmological and geometrical perspectives

That Cusanus is one of the most important of Quattrocento’s philosophers and a key figure in Western culture is well known. Ever since Ernst Cassirer in his epochal book Individuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renais- sance labeled Cusanus “the first modern thinker”, the interest in Cusanus’ thought has burgeoned. Critical studies have pointed out – and continue to point out – the different aspects and implications of his vast and multifaceted speculative activity. The aim of my article is to pursue the relation be- tween the infinite and the finite from Cusanus’ cosmological and mathematical point of view, in order to underline – in the Cardinal’s thought – the status of the finite mind as the condition of the possibility of the impossibility to attain the infinite.