This book offers a fresh account of one of the remarkable figures in the Renaissance, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), by focusing on a neglected aspect of his work; his reading of ...scholasticism and its reception in the fifteenth century.
This volume provides a comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. In essays specially commissioned for this book, ...a distinguished group of scholars presents the central topics and texts of Pico's literary output. Best known as the author of the celebrated 'Oration on the Dignity of Man', Pico also wrote several other prominent works. They include an influential diatribe against astrology, an ambitious metaphysical treatise attempting to reconcile Platonic and Aristotelian metaphysical views, and writings on a range of subjects such as magic, Kabbalah, the Church, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of knowledge. The first volume of its kind in English, this collection of essays will be of value not only to advanced students and specialists of late medieval and Renaissance thought, but also to those interested in Italian humanism and Renaissance Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism.
An account of the astrological controversies that arose in Renaissance Italy in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, published in 1496.
The library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) contained over 1,200 volumes (both manuscripts and incunabula). Two separate inventories exist, both known about but published in inadequate ...editions, but the library has not received the same attention given to other humanist libraries since for a long time it was thought that it had been destroyed. The present article focuses on the printed books in the collection. As the examples cited in the article show, the mark which Pico added to his volumes and which is recorded in the two inventories enables us in many cases to identify a specific edition (or small group of editions) from differing and often discordant inventorial descriptions. Since Pico used to leave a mark consisting of a thin scratch with two points written above against the passages which had attracted his attention, recognising this sign and other annotations in Pico’s hand can lead to the identification of hitherto unknown copies from his library.
Pico della Mirandola, one of the most remarkable thinkers of the Renaissance, has become known as a founder of humanism and a supporter of secular rationality. Brian Copenhaver upends this ...understanding of Pico, unearthing the magic and mysticism in the most famous work attributed to him,The Oration on the Dignity of Man.
This book presents a detailed account of Ficino's De Christiana religione and of Pico's Apologia, in the context of the evolution of a humanist theology. Focusing on the relations between humanism, ...theology, and politics, it concludes with the Savonarola affair.
This study shows how Giovanni Pico della Mirandola used Neoplatonic and kabbalistic ideas to develop an innovative theory of biblical allegory. Based on epistemology and intellectual ascent, his ...theory relates to scholastic debate over the action of the intellect.
In The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, Brian Ogren deeply analyzes late fifteenth century Italian Jewish thought concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of time. ...Ogren examines uses of philosophy and Kabbalah in the thought of four important fifteenth century thinkers.
Cum ipsis sensibus labor et pugna Huß, Bernhard
Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie,
3/2015, Letnik:
131, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s poetry is contextualized by his own poetological statements, negotiating the tension between vernacular Petrarchism and the metaphysical and theological tenets of ...Renaissance philosophy. Although Pico’s poems are overshadowed by his philosophical writings in existing research, poetry plays a far more important role within his oeuvre than most critics are ready to admit. Pico’s demand is for a poetic discourse charged with doctrinal subtexts. In the Quattrocento, poetry and rhetoric are not yet sharply distinguished in terms of theory – a systematic poetics of genre emerges only later, during the Cinquecento. If «eloquence» in general is to be compatible with philosophy in the 14th century, this must equally apply to poetry. On its linguistic surface, Pico’s vernacular poetry clearly exhibits the influence of Petrarchism. Yet while his poems deploy the established patterns of the Petrarchan tradition, Pico attempts to invest these texts with a metaphysical dimension. This attempt yields varying results – towards the end of his poetic production (his poetry does not in fact constitute mere juvenilia, as has frequently been assumed), Pico appears to be disillusioned with vernacular poetry, negating the ability of poetic discourse to master «cum ipsis sensibus labor et pugna».
