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Description

1. xiii, 258 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "In Debating the Stars, Ovanes Akopyan sheds new light on the astrological controversies that arose in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries after the publication of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (1496). This treatise has often been held responsible for a contemporary reassessment of the status of astrology, a discipline that attracted widespread fascination in the Renaissance. Akopyan's reconstruction of the development of Pico's views demonstrates that the Disputationes was a continuation of rather than a drastic rupture with the rest of his legacy. By investigating the philosophical and humanist foundations for Pico's attack on astrological predictions, Akopyan challenges the popular assumption that the treatise was written under Girolamo Savonarola's spell. He shows instead how it was appropriated ideologically by pro-Savonarolan circles after Pico's death. This book also offers a comprehensive study of the immediate reception of the Disputationes across Italy and Europe and reveals that the debates initiated by Pico's intervention pervaded all of the European intellectual oikumene"--

Series statement

1. Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 325

Uniform title

1. Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 325.

Subject

1. Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494
2. Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni)
3. 1268-1559
4. Astrology > Early works to 1800
5. Philosophy > Early works to 1800
6. Philosophers > Italy > Biography
7. Astrology > History
8. Physics > Philosophy > History
9. Philosophy, Renaissance
10. Philosophy, Italian
11. Astrology
12. Intellectual life
13. Philosophers
14. Philosophy
15. Physics > Philosophy
16. Italy > Intellectual life > 1268-1559
17. Italy

Genre/Form

1. Biographies.
2. Early works.
3. History.

Contents

1. Scientia naturalis, Kabbalah and celestial spheres : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on astrology (1486-1493) -- The Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem : introductory remarks -- Reading texts : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and his sources -- Me quoque adolescentem olim fallebat : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Versus Prisca theologia -- 'Princeps aliorum' and His Followers : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the 'Astrological Tradition' in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem -- Back to Aristotle? Natural philosophy in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem -- Ideological appropriation of Giovanni Pico's Disputationes : Girolamo Savonarola and his Contro gli astrologi -- Praenotio, prisca haeresis and astrology : Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola between Savonarola and Giovanni Pico -- With 'Latins' against 'Latin vice' : Maximus the Greek on astrology -- Lucio Bellanti and the return to 'Christian astrology' -- Poet, astrologer, courtier : Giovanni Gioviano Pontano Versus Giovanni Pico della Mirandola -- Astrology in Francesco Zorzi's De harmonia mundi : a response to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam?

Call number

1. JFE 21-6955

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Akopyan, Ovanes, author.

Title

1. Debating the stars in the Italian Renaissance : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem and its reception / by Ovanes Akopyan.

Publisher

1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 325
2. Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 325.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1268-1559

Other form:

1. Online version: Akopyan, Ovanes. Debating the stars in the Italian Renaissance. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004442276 (DLC) 2020034559

LCCN

1. 2020034558

ISBN

1. 9789004363601 hardcover
2. 9004363602 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 21-6955