Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521847362 ISBN 13: 9780521847360

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This volume provides a comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. In essays specially commissioned for this book, a distinguished group of scholars presents the central tropics and texts of Pico's literary output. Best known as the author of the celebrated "Oration on the Dignity of Man," a magnificent speech originally intended to introduce a debate of 900 theses to be held in Rome before the Pope, the College of Cardinals, and an international group of scholars, Pico also wrote several other prominent works.

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Book Description:

This volume provides a comprehensive presentation of the philosophical work of the fifteenth-century Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. In essays specially commissioned for this book, a distinguished group of scholars presents the central tropics and texts of Pico's literary output.

About the Author:

M. V. Dougherty is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Dominican University. His research in the history of philosophy includes work on the thinking of Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, René Descartes, as well as Pico della Mirandola.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521847362
• ISBN 13: 9780521847360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238
• Editor: Dougherty M. V.