Research Catalog

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.

Author

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco, 1469 or 1470-1533

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Additional Authors

• Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494
• Copenhaver, Brian P.
• Allen, Michael J. B.
• Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494.

Description

lxxxvii, 330 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

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 This is the fact of the matter: Gianfrancesco left the Conclusions unpublished while publishing the Oration in a collection introduced by his Life.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"--

Series Statement

I Tatti Renaissance library; ITRL 93

Uniform Title

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 93.

Subject

• Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494
• Philosophical anthropology > Early works to 1800
• Philosophy, Renaissance > Early works to 1800
• Philosophical anthropology
• Philosophy, Renaissance

Genre/Form

• Early works.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index.

Language (note)

• Facing page translation with Latin on the versos and English on the rectos ; added notes and commentary in English.

Contents

Gianfrancesco Pico Della Mirandola -- Life of Pico della Mirandola p. 1 -- Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola -- Oration p. 79.

Call Number

PA8161

ISBN

• 9780674023420
• 0674023420

LCCN

2020057341

OCLC

1240263540

Author

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco, 1469 or 1470-1533, author. Author

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.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

I Tatti Renaissance library; ITRL 93

I Tatti Renaissance library ; 93.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index.

Language

Facing page translation with Latin on the versos and English on the rectos ; added notes and commentary in English.

Added Author

Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494, author. Author

Copenhaver, Brian P., editor, translator. Editor. Translator

Allen, Michael J. B., editor, translator. Editor. Translator

Container of expression: Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494. De hominis dignitate.

Container of expression: Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494. De hominis dignitate. English.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA8161 .T3 ITRL 93