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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) and Renaissance Philosophy, in Aither. Journal for the Study of Greek and Latin Philosophical Traditions, International Issue no. 3, 2014, 22-31

Aither. Journal for the Study of Greek and Latin Philosophical Traditions, International Issue no. 3, 2014 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) and Renaissance Philosophy PAUL RICHARD BLUM Department of Philosophy Loyola University Maryland 4501 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21210 Centre for Renaissance Texts, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc PRBlum@loyola.edu ABSTRACT Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) played a key role in the making of modern thought. He extended the humanist critique of medieval pessimism into an exaltation of the agency of humans. He advocated universal knowledge as liberation, suggested philosophical syncretism and concordance between philosophy and biblical wisdom based on the understanding that knowledge is what makes a human being human. A presentation on Giovanni Pico della Mirandola should have at least nine hundred chapters – but I will redu

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Pico in English: A Bibliography

The Works of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)

With a List of Studies and Commentaries

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On the Dignity of Man, translated by Charles Glenn Wallis, contained in On the Dignity of Man (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1965 [Reprinted, with a new bibliography, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998]), 3-34. Reprinted in: Toward Excellence, edited by Vincent Milosevich (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973), 35-60.
Oration on the Dignity of Man, translated by Elizabeth Livermore Forbes, in The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, edited by Ernst Cassirer, Paul Oskar Kristeller, John Herman Randall, Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948), 223-54.
Oration on the Dignity of Man, translated by A. Robert Caponigri (Chicago: Regnery Publishing, 1956). An electronic version of this text is available at: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crsh
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Mirandola 1463 - Firenze 1494

Bibliography: Pichiana: bibliografia delle edizioni e degli studi, a cura di L. Quaquarelli e Z. Zanardi, Firenze, Olschki 2005; N. Tirinnanzi, Pico della Mirandola, in Il Contributo italiano alla storia del Pensiero - Filosofia (2012); Br. Andreolli, PICO, in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, vol. 83 (2015).
Studies on the library: G. Busi, "Chi non ammirerà il nostro camaleonte?". La biblioteca cabbalistica di Pico della Mirandola, in Id., L'enigma dell'Ebraico nel Rinascimento,Torino, Nino Aragno 2007, pp. 25-45.
Following the arrest in 1489 of Flavio Mitridate, the converted Jew to whom Pico had entrusted the translation of cabbalistic texts, several volumes were confiscated that were meant for the count: it seems that they remained in Rome, without entering Pico's library, and they are now conserved at the Biblioteca apostolica Vaticana (mss. ebr. 189; 190; 191; Chig. A VI 190).

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