Pico Della Mirandola
by Borghesi, Francesco; Papio, Michael; Riva, MassimoFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-08-27
Publisher(s): Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary
This is a new translation and critical edition of Pico della Mirandola's most famous work, the Oration on the Dignity of Man. It is the first English edition to provide readers with substantial notes on the text, essays that address the work's historical, philosophical, and theological context, and a survey of its reception. Often called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance," this brief but complex text was originally composed in 1486 as the inaugural speech for an assembly of intellectuals, which could have produced one of the most exhaustive metaphysical, theological, and psychological debates in history, had Pope Innocent VIII not forbidden it. This edition of the Oration reflects the spirit of the original text in bringing together experts in different fields. Not unlike the debate Pico optimistically anticipated, the resulting work is superior to the sum of its parts.
Table of Contents
| Preface, Introduction, Overview | |
| Preface: history of the project and criteria for the current edition | |
| The historical and biographical background of the oration | |
| Chronology | |
| The Oration's printed editions | |
| Interpretations | |
| Overview | |
| Text | |
| Latin text with facing English translation and commentary in the footnotes | |
| Images | |
| Four images from the Palatine manuscript | |
| Bibliography | |
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