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Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration
The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico, his nephew, is the only contemporary account of the philosopher’s brief and astonishing career—Giovanni, who challenged anyone to debate him on nine hundred theses in Rome, whose writings made him a heretic by papal declaration, died at the age of thirty-one. Together, these works record Giovanni’s invention of Christian Kabbalah, his search for the ancient theology of Orpheus and Zoroaster, and his effort to reconcile all the warring schools of philosophy in universal concord. In this new translation, the two texts are presented with ample explanatory notes that transform our understanding of these fascinating thinkers.
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Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration
The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico, his nephew, is the only contemporary account of the philosopher’s brief and astonishing career—Giovanni, who challenged anyone to debate him on nine hundred theses in Rome, whose writings made him a heretic by papal declaration, died at the age of thirty-one. Together, these works record Giovanni’s invention of Christian Kabbalah, his search for the ancient theology of Orpheus and Zoroaster, and his effort to reconcile all the warring schools of philosophy in universal concord. In this new translation, the two texts are presented with ample explanatory notes that transform our understanding of these fascinating thinkers.
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Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration

Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration

Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration

Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration

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The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico, his nephew, is the only contemporary account of the philosopher’s brief and astonishing career—Giovanni, who challenged anyone to debate him on nine hundred theses in Rome, whose writings made him a heretic by papal declaration, died at the age of thirty-one. Together, these works record Giovanni’s invention of Christian Kabbalah, his search for the ancient theology of Orpheus and Zoroaster, and his effort to reconcile all the warring schools of philosophy in universal concord. In this new translation, the two texts are presented with ample explanatory notes that transform our understanding of these fascinating thinkers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674023420
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 03/15/2022
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library , #93
Pages: 432
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Language: Latin

About the Author

Brian P. Copenhaver is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he directed the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Michael J. B. Allen is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Gianfrancesco Pico Della Mirandola

Life of Pico della Mirandola 1

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Oration 79

Appendix I Selections from Pico's 900 Conclusions 141

Appendix II An Incomplete Early Draft of the Oration 169

Appendix III Abraham's Journey through the Sefirot 187

Appendix IV Notabilia to the Life and Oration in the Bologna Edition (1496) 189

Appendix V Gianfrancesco Pico's Argumentum to his Edition of Pico's Oration and Letters 195

Note on the Texts and on Sources 199

Notes to the Texts 219

Notes to the Translations 225

Bibliography 301

Index 307

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