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"This volume contains Gianfrancesco Pico's Life of his uncle Giovanni Pico and also Giovanni's Oration. Gianfrancesco's Life opens a collection that omits Giovanni's Conclusions but includes the speech that we - unlike Pico - know as an Oration on the Dignity of Man. He wrote the Oration to introduce the Conclusions, but his nephew's editorial decision cut the theses off from the speech that their author had connected with them. Several times in the Oration, the orator mentioned "theorems" to be proposed in the Conclusions: he clearly saw the book and the speech as tools for the same task. Either Gianfrancesco missed his uncle's intentions, which seems unlikely, or he meant to seal off his other writings - including the Oration - from a book that he found embarrassing for himself and his relative and too risky to make public. This is the fact of the matter: Gianfrancesco left the Conclusions unpublished while publishing the Oration in a collection introduced by his Life. Both the speech and the biography are presented here, in this edition, in the same way - apart from the Conclusions: this reflects the situation in 1496 and respects Gianfrancesco's choice, even though his decision blocked understanding of the speech for many years. Today, with access to all the relevant texts in many versions, readers can move from one work to another as needed"--

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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.

Jewish religion --- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni --- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, --- Pic de la Mirandole, Jean --- Picus Mirandulanus, Johannes --- Picus de la Mirande, Jean --- Picus, Johannes --- Della Mirandola, Giovanni Pico, --- Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della, --- Mirandole, Jean Pic de la, --- Mirandula, Joannes Picus, --- Mirandulanus, Johannes Picus, --- Pic de la Mirandole, Jean, --- Picus de Mirandula, Johannes, --- Picus, Joannes, --- Picus Mirandula, Ioannes, --- Picus Mirandula, Joannes, --- Picus Mirandulae, Johannes, --- Picus Mirandulanus, Johannes, --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, - 1463-1494.

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"Questo studio si propone di ricostruire i tratti salienti di una teoria coerente e omogenea della magia nei suoi rapporti con la cabbala nel pensiero di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Attraverso un esame delle opere redatte tra il 1485 e il 1487, si mette in rilievo il ruolo centrale che la magia naturalis e la scientia cabalae hanno assunto nelle riflessioni del Mirandolano e nel suo progetto di definizione di un sapere universale...."--Inside flap of front cover.

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, --- Knowledge --- Magic. --- Cabala. --- Magic --- Cabala --- Pic de la Mirandole, Jean --- Picus Mirandulanus, Johannes --- Picus de la Mirande, Jean --- Picus, Johannes --- Della Mirandola, Giovanni Pico, --- Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della, --- Mirandole, Jean Pic de la, --- Mirandula, Joannes Picus, --- Mirandulanus, Johannes Picus, --- Pic de la Mirandole, Jean, --- Picus de Mirandula, Johannes, --- Picus, Joannes, --- Picus Mirandula, Ioannes, --- Picus Mirandula, Joannes, --- Picus Mirandulae, Johannes, --- Picus Mirandulanus, Johannes, --- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, - 1463-1494 - Knowledge - Magic --- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, - 1463-1494 - Knowledge - Cabala --- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, - 1463-1494

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This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord. It argues that Pico is part of a history of attempted concordance between philosophy and theology, reason and faith. His contribution is a syncretist theological philosophy based on Christianity, Platonism, Aristotelianism and Jewish Kabbalism. After an introduction, Chapter 2 discusses Pico’s career, his power-relations and his work, Chapters 3 and 4 place his three pillars of Platonism, Aristotelianism and Kabbalism in their historical context, examines shared histories, and introduces the scholars around Pico who contributed so much in each of these traditions (introducing, for example, Christian Kabbalism), including exploring Pico's complex relationship with Marsilio Ficino. Chapter 5 examines the problems of concordance within Pico’s cosmology and metaphysics, including the question of God and the role of the Intellect. Chapter 6 describes Pico’s ‘exceptionalist’ version of the mystical ascent as an individualized ascetic experience. Pico eschews the contemporary desire to use a renewed christian thinking or christian-classical metaphysics to change the world (towards a Golden Age or a 'second coming') to present a personal path to God, with no return to the world. Dr Sophia Howlett is President of School for International Training (SIT), USA, and the author of Marsilio Ficino and His World (2016).

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The contributions in this volume discuss Pico della Miranola's treatise "On the salvation of Origen." The writings of Origen were an important source of inspiration for the spiritual upheavals of the Renaissance and of humanism. A fundamental Renaissance text on Origen is the "Oration on the dignity of man" of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), which was published posthumously in 1486. In this text, freedom is thought of as the vehicle of human existence: man determines, by virtue of his freedom, his own place in the cosmos. This faculty of self-determination establishes man's responsibility for his own actions and determines his dignity. Pico also wrote about Origen in his famous "900 Theses" in 1486, saying that it would be more reasonable to assume that Origin is saved than to assume he is damned. Accused, among other things, of heresy, Pico defended both himself and Origen in the treatise "On the salvation of Origen," the first detailed apology of its kind since antiquity.

Humanism --- 873.4 PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, GIOVANNI --- 276 =75 ORIGENES --- 276 =75 ORIGENES Griekse patrologie--ORIGENES --- 276 =75 ORIGENES Patrologie grecque--ORIGENES --- Griekse patrologie--ORIGENES --- Patrologie grecque--ORIGENES --- Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur--PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA,GIOVANNI --- Origen --- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, --- García, Pedro, --- García, Petrus, --- Garsia, Petrus, --- Garsias, Petrus, --- Pic de la Mirandole, Jean --- Picus Mirandulanus, Johannes --- Picus de la Mirande, Jean --- Picus, Johannes --- Adamantius, --- Oregenes Adamantius, --- Origene --- Origenes Adamantius, --- Origenes, --- Origenis --- Orygenes --- Ūrījānūs --- Influence --- Philosophy --- Classical education --- Classical philology --- Philosophical anthropology --- Renaissance --- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Italy. --- Della Mirandola, Giovanni Pico, --- Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della, --- Mirandole, Jean Pic de la, --- Mirandula, Joannes Picus, --- Mirandulanus, Johannes Picus, --- Pic de la Mirandole, Jean, --- Picus de Mirandula, Johannes, --- Picus, Joannes, --- Picus Mirandula, Ioannes, --- Picus Mirandula, Joannes, --- Picus Mirandulae, Johannes, --- Picus Mirandulanus, Johannes, --- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, - 1463-1494.