I concetti di “libero arbitrio” e di “libera volontà” in Massimo il Greco: osservazioni sul lessico intellettuale nella Moscovia cinquecentesca

The Eastern Slavic world also underwent the process of developing the intellectual lexicon of modern languages, that was characteristic of Renaissance culture, thanks in part to the literary output of the Athonite monk Maximus the Greek (born Michele Trivolis, Arta, c. 1470 – Sergiev Posad, 1556), who is acknowledged as having played a mediating role in introducing concepts typical of Renaissance humanist culture into 16th-century Muscovy. This paper has the dual purpose of offering a review of recent studies investigating the Greek monk's ability to translate ideas and concepts into Church Slavonic through an original usus verborum, and of exploring the expression of the concepts of “free will” and “free choice” in the writings of Maximus the Greek, analysing the compounds of slavic the slavic pronoun самъ with the words власть and воля, present in the first letter to F.I. Karpov against divinatory astrology.