A Philosopher at the Crossroads : Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola’s Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy
by Amos Edelheit
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004445099 | 579 Pages | True PDF | 4.3 MB
by Amos Edelheit
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004445099 | 579 Pages | True PDF | 4.3 MB
This book offers a fresh account of one of the remarkable figures in the Renaissance, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), by focusing on a neglected aspect of his work; his reading of scholasticism and its reception in the fifteenth century.
Amos Edelheit, Ph.D. (2007) is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, National University of Ireland Maynooth. His main publications include Ficino, Pico and Savonarola. The Evolution of Humanist Theology 1461/2-1498, Scholastic Florence: Moral Psychology in the ‘Quattrocento’, and Humanism, Theology, and Spiritual Crisis in Renaissance Florence: Giovanni Caroli’s ‘Liber dierum lucensium’: A Critical Edition, English Translation, Commentary, and Introduction.