Pico in English: A Bibliography of the Works of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Pico in English: A Bibliography

The Works of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)

With a List of Studies and Commentaries

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Oratio

On the Dignity of Man, translated by Charles Glenn Wallis, contained in On the Dignity of Man (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1965 [Reprinted, with a new bibliography, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998]), 3-34.
Oration on the Dignity of Man, translated by Elizabeth Livermore Forbes, in The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, edited by Ernst Cassirer, Paul Oskar Kristeller, John Herman Randall, Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948), 223-54.
Oration on the Dignity of Man, translated by A. Robert Caponigri (Chicago: Regnery Publishing, 1956).
Oration: On the Dignity of Man, translated by Douglas Brooks-Davies and Stevie Davies, in Renaissance Views of Man, edited by Stevie Davies (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1979), 65-82.
Of the Dignity of Man: Oration of Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Count of Concordia, translated by Elizabeth Livermore Forbes, Journal of the History of Ideas 3 (1942), 347-54.
Oratio, translated with a commentary, by Pier Cesare Bori, Massimo Riva, Michael Papio, Saverio Marchignoli, Giorgio Melloni, Dino Buzzetti, and Karen De Leon Jones, at The Pico Project: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/pico/text/ov.html. Includes parallel Latin text.
Oration on the Dignity of Man, translated by Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, at: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Mirandola/

Conclusiones DCCC

Syncretism in the West: Pico’s 900 Theses (1486): The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems, edited and translated by S. A. Farmer (Tempe, Arizona: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998). Includes facing page Latin text.
The 900 Theses of Pico Della Mirandola, translated by Georg Krüger et alia, at: http://www.cybernaia.com/

Commento sopra una canzone d’amore di Girolamo Benivieni

Commentary on a Canzone of Benivieni, translated by Sears Jayne (New York: Peter Lang, 1984).
Commentary on a Poem of Platonic Love, translated by Douglas Carmichael (Lanham: University Press of America, 1986).
The Commentary of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on a Love Song of Girolama Benivieni, translated by Stephen John Salchenberger (Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1967).

De Ente et Uno

Of Being and Unity (De Ente et Uno), translated by Victor Michael Hamm (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1943). An electronic version of this text is available at: http://www.esotericarchives.com/pico/beinguni.htm
On Being and the One, translated by Paul J. W. Miller, contained in On the Dignity of Man (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1965 [Reprinted, with a new bibliography, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998]), 37-62.

Heptaplus

Heptaplus or Discourse on the Seven Days of Creation, translated by Jessie Brewer McGaw (New York: Philosophical Library, 1977).
Heptaplus, translated by Douglas Carmichael, contained in On the Dignity of Man (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1965 [Reprinted, with a new bibliography, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998]), 67-174.

Disputationes adversus Astrologiam Divinatricem

Arguments Against Divinatory Astrology. Selections presented in: The Occult in Early Modern Europe: A Documentary History, edited and translated by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), 76-7, 97-8, 110-11.

Epistola ad Hermolao Barbaro

“The Correspondence of G. Pico della Mirandola and Ermolao Barbaro Concerning the Relation of Philosophy and Rhetoric,” translated by Quirinus Breen, Journal of the History of Ideas 13 (1952), 392-412.

Duodecim Regulae

The Twelve Rules of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Partly Urging, Partly Directing Men in their Spiritual Battle, translated by Clarence H. Miller, contained in “Appendix A” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. I, edited by. Anthony S. G. Edwards, Katherine Gardiner Rodgers, and Clarence H. Miller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 372-7. Includes facing Latin text.

In Psalmum 15 Commentarius

Commentary on Psalm 15, translated by Clarence H. Miller, contained in “Appendix A” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. I, edited by. Anthony S. G. Edwards, Katherine Gardiner Rodgers, and Clarence H. Miller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 362-71. Includes facing Latin text.

Duodecim Arma Spiritualis

The Twelve Weapons in Spiritual Battle, translated by Clarence H. Miller, contained in “Appendix A” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. I, edited by. Anthony S. G. Edwards, Katherine Gardiner Rodgers, and Clarence H. Miller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 376-7. Includes facing Latin text.

Duodecim Conditiones Amantis

The Twelve Qualities of a Lover, translated by Clarence H. Miller, contained in “Appendix A” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. I, edited by. Anthony S. G. Edwards, Katherine Gardiner Rodgers, and Clarence H. Miller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 376-7. Includes facing Latin text.

Epistolae

Selected Letters, translated by Clarence H. Miller, contained in “Appendix A” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. I, edited by. Anthony S. G. Edwards, Katherine Gardiner Rodgers, and Clarence H. Miller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 340-63. Includes facing Latin text.

Life of Pico, by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (1469-1533)

The Life of Pico della Mirandola, translated by Clarence H. Miller, contained in “Appendix A” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, vol. I, edited by. Anthony S. G. Edwards, Katherine Gardiner Rodgers, and Clarence H. Miller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 294-341. Includes facing Latin text.

Studies and Commentaries

Allen, Michael J. B. “The Second Ficino-Pico Controversy: Parmenidean Poetry, Eristic, and the One,” in Marsilio Ficino e il Ritorno di Platone: Studi e Documenti, edited by Gian Carlo Garfagnini, vol. II (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1986), 417-55.

Allen, Michael J. B. “Cultura Hominis: Giovanni Pico, Marilio Ficino, and the Idea of Man,” in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Convegno internazionale di Studi nel Cinquecentesimo Anniversario della Morte (1494-1994), edited by Gian Carlo Garfagnini (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1997), 173-96.

Berger, Jr., Harry. “Pico and Neoplatonist Idealism: Philosophy as Escape,” Centennial Review 13 (1969), 38-83.

Bertman, Martin A. “Pico's Intellectual Politics,” History of European Ideas 7 (1986), 227-36.

Breen, Quirinus. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the Conflict of Philosophy and Rhetoric,” Journal of the History of Ideas 13 (1952), 384-91.

Breen, Quirinus. “Melancthon's Reply to G. Pico della Mirandola,” Journal of the History of Ideas 13 (1952), 413-26.

Cassirer, Ernst. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: A Study in the History of Renaissance Ideas,” Journal of the History of Ideas 3 (1942), 123-44, 319-46.

Copenhaver, Brian P. “Magic and the Dignity of Man: De-Kanting Pico’s Oration,” in The Italian Renaissance in the Twentieth Century, edited by Allen J. Grieco, Michael Rocke, Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2002), 295-320.

Copenhaver, Brian P. “The Secret of Pico’s Oration: Cabala and Renaissance Philosophy” in Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Peter A. French, Howard K Wettstein, Bruce Silver. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, vol. XXVI (Boston: Blackwell Publishing, 2002), 56-81.

Copenhaver, Brian P., and Schmitt, Charles B. “Giovanni Pico and Nicholas of Cusa” in: Renaissance Philosophy, vol. 3 of A History of Western Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), 163-84.

Copenhaver, Brian P. “Astrology and Magic,” in The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, edited by Charles Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 264-300.

Costa, Dennis. “Stuck Sow or Broken Heart: Pico’s Oratio as Ritual Sacrifice,” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 12 (1982), 221-35.

Craven, William G. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Symbol of his Age: Modern Interpretations of a Renaissance Philosopher (Geneva: Libraire Droz, 1981).

D’Amico, John F. “Paulo Cortesi’s Rehabilitation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,” Bibliotheque d’Humanisme et Renaissance 44 (1982), 37-51.

de Lubac, Henri. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Pedro Garcia,” in Theology in History, translated by Anne Englund Nash (San Francisco: Ignatius Press), 40-4.

Dougherty, M. V. “Two Possible Sources for Pico's Oratio,” Vivarium 40 (2002), 219-241.

Dulles, Avery. Princeps Concordiae: Pico della Mirandola and the Scholastic Tradition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941).

Edwards, Anthony S. G. “More's Life of Pico in the Early 17th Century,” Moreana 110 (1992), 5-7.

Farmer, Stephen Alan. The Problem of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: The Early Writings (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1977).

Fitzgerald, Desmond J. “Some Notes on Pico’s Dispute with Astrology,” in Arts Libéraux et Philosophie au Moyen Âge (Paris: Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin, 1969), 1049-55.

Gabrieli, Vittorio. “Giovanni Pico and Thomas More,” Moreana 15-16 (1967), 43-57.

Garin, Eugenio. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola” chapter VII of Portraits from the Quattrocento, translated by Victor A. Velen and Elizabeth Velen (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1963), 190-221.

Garin, Eugenio. “Pico della Mirandola and the Attack on Rhetoric,” “Man,” “The Peace of Philosophy,” “The Attack on Astrology,” “The Beginnings of Platonic Apologetics,” chapters 6-10 of Italian Humanism: Philosophy and Civic Life in the Renaissance, translated by Peter Munz (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1965), 101-13.

Garin, Eugenio. Astrology in the Renaissance: The Zodiac of Life, translated by Carolyn Jackson and June Allen, and revised in conjunction with the author by Clare Robertson (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,1983).

Gilmore, Myron. “More's Translation of Gianfrancesco Pico's Biography,” in L'Opera e il Pensiero di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola nella Storia dell'Umanismo, vol. II (Firenze: Nella Sede dell'Instituto, 1965), 301-4.

Gosselin, Edward A. “The 'Lord God's' Son in Pico and Newton,” in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., edited by John Manfasani and Ronald G. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991), pp. 51-58.

Gray, Hanna H. “Renaissance Humanism: The Pursuit of Eloquence,” Journal of the History of Ideas 24 (1963), 497-514.

Hankins, James. “Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (1463-94),” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Craig, vol. VII (London: Routledge Publishers, 1998), 386-92.

Hughes, Philip Edgcumbe. “Pico della Mirandola: 1463-1494: A Study of an Intellectual Pilgrimage,” Philosophia Reformata 23 (1958), 108-135, 164-81. Continued in Philosophia Reformata 24 (1959), 17-44, 65-73.

Idel, Moshe. “The Throne and the Seven-branched Candlestick: Pico della Mirandola's Hebrew Sources,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 40 (1977), 290-2.

Ingegno, Alfonso. “The New Philosophy of Nature,” in The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, edited by Charles Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 236-63.

Kerrigan, William, and Braden, Gordon. “Pico della Mirandola and Renaissance Ambition,” chapter 7 of The Idea of the Renaissance (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), 117-33.

Kibre, Pearl. The Library of Pico della Mirandola (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936 [Reprinted, New York, AMS Press, 1966]).

Kraye, Jill. “Lorenzo and the Philosophers,” in Lorenzo the Magnificent: Culture and Politics, edited by Michael Mallett and Nicholas Mann (London: The Warburg Institute), 1996, 151-66.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar. “The Dignity of Man,” chapter 9 of Renaissance Thought and its Sources, edited by Michael Mooney (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979), 169-81.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar. “Pico della Mirandola, Count Giovanni,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Paul Edwards, vol. 6 (New York: MacMillen Publishing Company, 1967), 307-11.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar. “Pico,” chapter 4 of Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1964), 54-71.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and his Sources,” in L’Opera e il Pensiero di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola nella Storia dell’Umanismo, vol. 1 (Firenze: Nella Sede dell’Instituto, 1965), 35-84.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar. “The Latin Poems of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: A Supplementary Note,” in Poetry and Poetics from Ancient Greece to the Renaissance: Studies in Honor of James Hutton, edited by G. M. Kirkwood (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1975), 185-206.

Kristeller, Paul Oskar. Medieval Aspects of Renaissance Learning: Three Essays, edited and translated by Edward P. Mahoney (Durham: Duke University Press, 1974 [2^nd edition, 1993]).

Laureys, Marc. “The Reception of Giovanni Pico in the Low Countries,” in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Convegno internazionale di Studi nel Cinquecentesimo Anniversario della Morte (1494-1994), edited by Gian Carlo Garfagnini (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1997), 625-40.

Lehmberg, Stanford E. “Sir Thomas More's Life of Pico della Mirandola,” Studies in the Renaissance 3 (1956), 61-74.

Lohr, Charles H. “Metaphysics,” in The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, edited by Charles Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 537-638.

Mahoney, Edward P. “Pico, Plato, and Albert the Great: The Testimony and Evaluation of Agostino Nifo,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology 2 (1992), 165-92.

Mahoney, Edward P. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Origen on Humans, Choice, and Hierarchy,” Vivens Homo 5 (1994), 359-76.

Mahoney, Edward P. “Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola and Elia Del Medigo, Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo,” in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Convegno internazionale di Studi nel Cinquecentesimo Anniversario della Morte (1494-1994), edited by Gian Carlo Garfagnini (Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1997), 127-56.

Maskell, David. “Robert Gaguin and Thomas More, Translators of Pico della Mirandola,” Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance 37 (1975), 63-8.

McKnight, Stephen A. “Ficino, Pico, and the New God: Anthropos,” chapter 3 of Sacralizing the Secular: The Renaissance Origins of Modernity (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981), **-70.

Montgomery, John Warwick. “Eros and Agape in the Thought of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,” Concordia Theological Monthly 32 (1961), 733-46.

Novak, B. C. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Jochanan Alemanno,” Journal of the Warburg and Coutauld Institutes 45 (1982), 125-47.

O’Malley, John W. “Preaching for the Popes” in The Pursuit of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Religion, edited by Charles Trinkaus and Heiko Oberman (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1974), 408-40.

O’Malley, John W. Rhetoric. “Orators and Preachers” and “Christian Doctrine,” chapters 3 and 4 of Doctrine, and Reform in the Sacred Orators of the Papal Court, c. 1450-1521 (Durham: Duke University Press, 1979), 77-164.

Panizza, Letizia. “Pico della Mirandola’s 1485 Parody of Scholastic ‘Barbarians’,” in Italy in Crisis: 1494, edited by Jane Everson and Diego Zancani (Oxford: European Humanities Research Centre, 2000), 152-74.

Parks, George B. “Pico della Mirandola in Tudor Translation” in Philosophy and Humanism: Renaissance Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, edited by Edward P. Mahoney (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975), 352-69.

Poppi, Antonino. “Fate, Fortune, Providence, and Human Freedom,” in The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, edited by Charles Schmitt, Quentin Skinner, Eckhard Kessler, and Jill Kraye (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 641-67.

Rabin, Sheila J. “Kepler’s Attitude Toward Pico and the Anti-Astrology Polemic” Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997), 750-70.

Rigg, J. M. “Introduction” in Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola (London: David Nutt, 1890), v-xl.

Thumfart, Alexander. “Readings on Cabbala: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,” in Jewish Studies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, vol. II, edited by Judit Targarona Borrás and Angel Sáenz-Badillos, vol II (Leiden: Brill, 1999), 83-90.

Trinkaus, Charles. “Cosmos and Man: Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico on the Structure of the Universe and the Freedom of Man,” Vivens Homo 5 (1994), 335-57.

Trinkaus, Charles. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the Place of Man in the Cosmos: Egidio da Viterbo on the Dignity of Men and Angels,” chapter 10 of In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought, vol. 2 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), 505-29.

Thompson, David. “Pico della Mirandola’s Praise of Lorenzo (and Critique of Dante and Petrarch),” Neophilologus 54 (1970), 123-6.

Thorndike, Lynn. A History of Magic and Experimental Science, vol. 4 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1934).

Waddington, Raymond B. “The Sun at the Center: Structure as Meaning in Pico della Mirandola’s Heptaplus,” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 3 (1973), 69-86.

Walker, D. P. Spiritual and Demonic Magic from Ficino to Campanella (London: Warburg Institute, 1958 [Reprinted with a new introduction by Brian P. Copenhaver, University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000]).

Wind, Edgar. “The Revival of Origen” in Studies in Art and Literature for Belle Da Costa Greene, edited by Dorothy Miner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954), 412-24.

Wind, Edgar. “The Medal of Pico della Mirandola,” chapter III of Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958), 39-56.

Wirszubski, Chaim. Pico della Mirandola’s Encounter with Jewish Mysticism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).

Wirszubski, Chaim. “Giovanni Pico's Book of Job,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institute 32 (1969), 171-99.

Yates, Frances A. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Magic,” in L’Opera e il Pensiero di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola nella Storia dell’Umanismo, vol. 1 (Firenze: Nella Sede dell’Instituto, 1965), 159-204.

Yates, Frances A. “Pico della Mirandola and Cabalist Magic,” chapter 5 of Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), 84-116.

Yates, Frances A. “The Occult Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola,” chapter II of The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979), 17-22.

Zapatka, F. E. “Prose Apothegms into Rime Royal: Thomas More’s Translation of Pico della Mirandola’s 'Twelve Rules,'” in Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Guelpherbytana: Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies, edited by Stella P. Revard, Fidel Rädle, and Mario A. DiCesare (Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1988), 395-400.

Some older biographical materials on Pico:

Pater, Walter. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola,” chapter 2 of The Renaissance (New York: Modern Library), 24-40.
Ehrman, Sidney Hellman. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: 1463-1494 A. D.,” in Three Renaissance Silhouettes (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1928), 83-109.
Greswell, W. Parr. “Memoirs of Joannes Picus of Mirandula” in Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Joannes Picus of Mirandula, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminus, and the Amalthei, 2^nd ed. (Manchester: R. and W. Dean, 1805), 153-367.
Jesup, M. “The Life of John Picus, Prince of Mirandula” in The Lives of Picus and Pascal: Faithfully Collected from the Most Authentick Accounts of Them (London: W. Burton, 1723), 1-23.

Online Latin Texts:

Oratio

Conclusiones DCCC

http://www.esotericarchives.com/pico/conclus.htm

Carmina

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/mirandola.carmina.html

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