Pico della Mirandola : new essays / edited by M.V. Dougherty.

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 outp...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Dougherty, M. V., 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pico on the relationship of rhetoric and philosophy / Jill Kraye
  • Pico, theology, and the church / Paul Richard Blum
  • Pico della Mirandola's philosophy of religion / Michael Sudduth
  • The birth day of Venus: Pico as platonic exegete in the Commento and the Heptaplus / Michael J.B. Allen
  • Three precursors to Pico della Mirandola's Roman disputation and the
  • Question of human nature in the Oratio / M.V. Dougherty
  • Pico on magic and astrology / Sheila J. Rabin
  • Pico's quest for all knowledge / Carl N. Still
  • A life in works / Francesco Borghesi.