Life of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola. Oration

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-674-02342-0
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 93, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 206 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Reihe: The I Tatti Renaissance Library

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pico Della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco

Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni

Copenhaver, Brian P

Weitere Mitwirkende

Copenhaver, Brian P.

Copenhaver, Brian P

Allen, Michael J. B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Copenhaver, Brian P.
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. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, editor of <i>History of Philosophy Quarterly</i>, past president of the <i>Journal of the History of Philosophy</i>, and on the boards of Harvard’s I Tatti Renaissance Library and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Getty foundations and has authored many books, including <i>Hermetica</i>, <i>The Book of Magic</i>, and <i>Magic in Western Culture</i>.

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