A philosopher at the crossroads : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's encounter with scholastic philosophy

Author(s)

• Edelheit, Amos, Ph.D.

Bibliographic Information

A philosopher at the crossroads : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's encounter with scholastic philosophy

Amos Edelheit

（Brill's studies in intellectual history, 338）

Brill, 2022

• hbk.

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [541]-558) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This study explains how one of the most remarkable thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), broke new ground by engaging with the scholastic tradition while maintaining his 'humanist' sensibilities. A central claim of the monograph is that Pico was a 'philosopher at the crossroads,' whose sophisticated reading of numerous scholastic thinkers enabled him to advance a different conception of philosophy. The scholastic background to Pico's work has been neglected by historians of the period. This omission has served to create not only an unreliable picture of Pico's thought, but also a more general ignorance of the dynamism of scholastic thought in late fifteenth-century Italy. The author argues that these deficiencies of modern scholarship stand in need of correction.

Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Scholastic Formation and Training in Italy and Paris 1 Status Quaestionis 2 Pico in Padua (1480-1482) and Beyond 3 Pico in Paris: When and What Part 2: Scholastic Traces and Influence. Pico's Attitude towards the Scholastic Tradition 4 A Historical Approach: Scholastic Thinkers and the New Status of Philosophy 5 The Apology as a Case-Study 6 Pico and Albert the Great 7 Pico and Thomas Aquinas 8 Pico and Francis of Mayronnes 9 Pico and John Duns Scotus 10 Pico and Henry of Ghent 11 Pico and Giles of Rome Part 3: Scholastic Reactions to Pico and the Reception of His Thought and Method 12 Bernardo Torni against Four Theses concerning Natural Philosophy 13 Galgani da Siena against a Thesis on the Nature of Sound 14 Pedro Garsia against the Apology 15 Picus ut pica locutus est: Giovanni Caroli against Certain Theological Theses 16 Antonio Cittadini di Faenza against De ente et uno 17 Pietro Pomponazzi against Pico on Astrology and Beyond: Modification vs. Rejection Conclusion Bibliography Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC12898277
• ISBN:
  • 9789004445093
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 568 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 195
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494 https://isni.org/isni/0000000110245931
  • LCSH : Scholasticism
  • LCSH : Humanism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA0144067X