Description: 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 tropics and texts of Pico’s literary output. Best known as the author of the celebrated “Oration on the Dignity of Man,” a magnificent speech originally intended to introduce a debate of 900 theses to be held in Rome before the Pope, the College of Cardinals, and an international group of scholars, Pico also wrote several other prominent works. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction M. V. Dougherty 2. Pico on the relationship of rhetoric and philosophy Jill Kraye 3. Pico, theology, and the church Paul Richard Blum 4. Pico della Mirandola's philosophy of religion Michael Sudduth 5. The birth day of Venus: Pico as platonic exegete in the Commento and the Heptaplus Michael J. B. Allen 6. Three precursors to Pico della Mirandola's Roman disputation and the question of human nature in the Oratio M. V. Dougherty 7. Pico on magic and astrology Sheila J. Rabin 8. Pico's quest for all knowledge Carl N. Still 9. A philosophical life Francesco Borghesi. This volume might be of interest to students of the history of renaissance philosophy, Marsilio Ficino, Oration on the Dignity of Man, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian Renaissance, Nicholas of Cusa, Nicolaus Cusanus. Please see my other auctions for more books in philosophy, theology, classics, and biblical studies. Thank you.
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Item Length: 9in
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Author: M. V. Dougherty
Publication Name: Pico Della Mirandola : New Essays
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 238 Pages
