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Title: Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration
Condition: New
ISBN-10: 0674023420
EAN: 9780674023420
ISBN: 9780674023420
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Type: Hardback
Release Date: 15/03/2022
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 133mm
Author: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
Contributor: Brian P. Copenhaver (Edited and translated by), Michael J. B. Allen (With)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Book Series: I Tatti Renaissance Library
Topic: History, Literary Criticism
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 499g
Release Year: 2022
Description: 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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