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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Apologia. L'autodifesa di Pico di fronte al Tribunale dell’Inquisizione

A cura di Paolo Edoardo Fornaciari

PB pp. CVI-470 12 tavv. f. t., € 83,00

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2010
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978-88-8450-383-1
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This is the first critical edition of the Italian translation of Pico della Mirandola's, Apologia conclusionum suarum, published for the first time on the last day of May 1487, more than half a millennium ago, and then published again between 1496 and 1601. Composed over a very short period of time after the trial and condemnation of 13 of the 900 theses published by Pico (February-March 1487), the Apologia was immediately censored, thereby incurring the destruction of most of the copies. Today we know of twenty-one specimens, spread among the libraries of Europe and North America, and of these no fewer than fifteen show manuscript corrections directly attributable to Pico’s writing workshop. A complete reading of the work, now reconstructed according to modern philological criteria, paints a novel portrait of Pico as master cultural impresario, alongside that of consummate intellectual able to wield theological disputation with an oft-thought excessive ease which alienated him definitively from the sympathies of papal masters. The conviction he had incurred was cancelled definitively only after his death in 1519, on the initiative of Pope Leo X, Giovanni de’ Medici, son of il Magnifico, to whom Giovanni Pico had dedicated the Heptaplus on the day of his elevation to the cardinalate.
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