Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Author/Creator:
- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco, 1469 or 1470-1533, author
- Publication/Creation:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola / Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola. Oration / Giovanni Pico della Mirandola ; edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver in consultation with Michael J. B. Allen
- Series Titles:
- I Tatti Renaissance library; 93
I Tatti Renaissance library ; 93.
- Related/Included Titles:
- De hominis dignitate.
De hominis dignitate. English.
Related Names
- Additional Author/Creators:
- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494, author
Copenhaver, Brian P., editor and translator
Allen, Michael J. B., editor and translator
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494. De hominis dignitate
Subjects/Genre
- Subjects:
- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni,1463-1494
Philosophical anthropology--Early works to 1800
Philosophy, Renaissance--Early works to 1800
Description/Summary
- Summary:
- "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 This is the fact of the matter: Gianfrancesco left the Conclusions unpublished while publishing the Oration in a collection introduced by his Life.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"--
- Language:
- English
Latin - Language Note:
- Facing page translation with Latin on the versos and English on the rectos ; added notes and commentary in English.
- Physical Type/Description:
- lxxxvii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937452997302486
- ISBN:
- 9780674023420
0674023420 - OCLC Number:
- 1240263540
- Barcode:
- 010003521157
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