Pico in English: A Bibliography The Works of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) With a List of Studies and Commentaries Compiled by M. V. Dougherty         For suggestions, addenda, or corrigenda, kindly write to: dougherm{at}ohiodominican{dot}edu

Index of Translations:

Index of Studies and Commentaries:

Translations

Epistola ad Hermolao Barbaro (1485)

• Letter to Ermolao Barbaro, translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn, in Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric, edited by Wayne A. Rebhorn (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000) 58–67.

• Letter to Ermolao Barbaro, translated by Arturo B. Fallico and Herman Shapiro, in Renaissance Philosophy Volume I: The Italian Philosophers, edited by Arturo B. Fallico and Herman Shapiro (New York: Random House, 1967), 105–17.

• “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. Reprinted in: Christianity and Humanism: Studies in the History of Ideas, edited by Nelson Peter Ross (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1968), 11–38. Reprinted in: The Renaissance: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies. Volume IV: Anti-Humanism and Anti-Renaissance, edited by Robert Black (London: Routledge, 2006), 164–84.

• Letter to Ermolao Barbaro, translated by Philip Edgcumbe Hughes, in “Pico della Mirandola: 1463–1494: A Study of an Intellectual Pilgrimage,” Philosophia Reformata 23 (1958), 118–21.

• Joannes Picus Mirandula, to Hermolaus Barbarus, translated by W. Parr Greswell, in Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Joannes Picus of Mirandula, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminus, and the Amalthei, edited by W. Parr Greswell, 2nd ed. (Manchester: R. and W. Dean, 1805), 194–208. An electronic version of this text is available here.

Commento sopra una canzone d’amore di Girolamo Benivieni (1486)

• Commentary on a Poem of Platonic Love, translated by Douglas Carmichael (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986).

• Commentary on a Canzone of Benivieni, translated by Sears Jayne (New York: Peter Lang, 1984).

• The Commentary of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on a Love Song of Girolamo Benivieni, Translated with Introduction and Notes, translated by Stephen John Salchenberger (Ph.D. dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 1967).

• A Platonick Discourse Upon Love, translated by Thomas Stanley, in The Poems and Translations of Thomas Stanley, edited by Galbraith Miller Crump (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962), 197–229.

• A Platonick Discourse upon Love in Explication of a Sonnet by Hieronimo Benivieni, translated by Thomas Stanley. Edited by Edmund G. Gardner. The Humanist’s Library VII (Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1914). An electronic version of this text is available here

Oratio (1486)

• Oration, translated by Brian P. Copenhaver in “Appendix A” of Brian P. Copenhaver, Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University), 459–482.

• Oration on the Dignity of Man: A New Translation and Commentary, edited by Francesco Borghesi, and Michael Papio, and Massimo Riva (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 107–277.

• Oration, in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration , edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver. I Tatti Renaissance Library. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022), 81–139.

• On the Dignity of Man, translated by Charles Glenn Wallis, in On the Dignity of Man (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1965 [Reprinted, with a new bibliography, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998]), 3–34. Reprinted in: Toward Excellence, edited by Vincent Milosevich (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1973), 35–60.

• 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. Reprinted as: 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. Reprinted in: The Italian Renaissance, edited by Werner L. Gundersheimer (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1965) [Reprinted, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993, as Renaissance Society of America Reprint Text Series, vol. 2], 94–111. Also published with facing page Latin text as Oratio de hominis dignitate, Oration on the Dignity of Man (Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1953).

• Oration on the Dignity of Man, translated by A. Robert Caponigri (Chicago: Regnery Publishing, 1956). Electronic versions of this text are available here.

• Oration on the Dignity of Man, translated by Arturo B. Fallico and Herman Shapiro, in Renaissance Philosophy Volume I: The Italian Philosophers: Selected Readings from Petrarch to Bruno, edited, translated, and introduced by Arturo B. Fallico and Hermann Shapiro (New York: Random House, 1967), 141–71.

• 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.

• The Very Elegant Speech on the Dignity of Man, translated by Charles Glenn Wallis (Annapolis: The St. John’s Bookstore, 1940).

• Oration on Dignity of Man, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Mark Musa, in The Italian Renaissance Reader, edited by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Mark Musa (New York: Penguin Books, 1987), 178–84.

• De Hominis Dignitate, translated by W. Parr Greswell, in Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Joannes Picus of Mirandula, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminus, and the Amalthei, edited by W. Parr Greswell, 2nd ed. (Manchester: R. and W. Dean, 1805), 247–58. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• 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. Includes parallel Latin text.

Conclusiones nongentae (1486)

• 900 Theses, in 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, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998), 183–553. Includes facing page Latin text. Selections of the introduction are available here, here, here, here, and here. The author’s errata page is here.

• Conclusiones CM publice disputandae, Latin text with translation and commentary (in progress), by Francesco Borghesi, Pier Cesare Bori, Dino Buzzetti, Paul Caton, Saverio Marchignoli, Michael Papio, Massimo Riva, et al., at Conclusiones CM. 

Apologia (1487)

• Apology, edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver. I Tatti Renaissance Library. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), forthcoming.

• [Selections], translated by W. Parr Greswell, in Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Joannes Picus of Mirandula, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminus, and the Amalthei, edited by W. Parr Greswell, 2nd ed. (Manchester: R. and W. Dean, 1805), 233–5, 237, 239, 240. An electronic version of this text is available here.

Heptaplus de septiformi sex dierum Geneseos enarratione (1489)

• Heptaplus or Discourse on the Seven Days of Creation, translated by Jessie Brewer McGaw (New York: Philosophical Library, 1977).

• Heptaplus, translated by Douglas Carmichael, in On the Dignity of Man (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1965 [Reprinted, with a new bibliography, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998]), 67–174.

Expositiones in Psalmos (1489)

• Commentary on Psalm 15, translated by Clarence H. Miller, in “Appendix A: More’s Latin Sources” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Volume 1. English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things, 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.

• An Interpretation of Psalm XV, translated by Thomas More and modernized by W. E. Campbell, in The English Works of Sir Thomas More, vol. I, edited by W. E. Campbell (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1931), 374–80. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• The Commentarie of Iohn Picus Mirandula, upon the Sixteene Psalm, translated by W. H., in Twelve Rules, and Weapons concerning the Spirituall Battel. Together with a briefe exposition upon the sixteene Psalm: With two most worthie Epistles, written in Latin by that most worthy and noble Gentleman Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula. And translated into English for the benefite of all good Christian Souldiers in the Spirituall Battaile (London: Iohn Windet, 1589), 19-27.

• The Interpretacion of Iohan Pic[us] upon this Psalme Conserua me domine, in Here is co[n]teyned the lyfe of Iohan Picus erle of Myrandula a grete lorde of Italy an excellent connynge man in all sciences, [and] verteous of lyuynge with dyuers epystles [and] other werkes of ye sayd Iohan Picus full of grete science vertue [and] wysedome, whose lyfe [and] werkes bene worthy [and] dygne to be redde and often to be had in memorye, translated by Thomas More (London: Wynkyn de Worde [1525]). An electronic version of this text is available here.

   

De ente et uno (1492)

• 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 here.

• On Being and the One, translated by Paul J. W. Miller, in On the Dignity of Man (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1965 [Reprinted, with a new bibliography, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1998]), 37–62.

Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (1493)

• Disputations, translated by H. Darrel Rutkin. I Tatti Renaissance Library. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), forthcoming.

• “Disputationes contra astrologiam divinatricem (1494): Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, The Problems with Astrology,” “Disputationes contra astrologiam divinatricem (1494): Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Planets and Bile,” “Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (1496): Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Conjunctions and Major Religious Events,” chapters 2.9, 2.32, 2.44 of 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.

Epistolae

• Letters, edited and translated by Francesco Borghesi and David A. Lines. I Tatti Renaissance Library. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), forthcoming.

• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola to Marsilio Ficino, in “Appendix A,” “Appendix B,” and “Appendix C” of The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, vol. 7, translated by members of the Language Department of the School of Economic Science, London (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2003), 89–92.

• Giovanni Pico della Mirandola to Angelo Poliziano, in Angelo Poliziano, Letters, vol. I, edited and translated by Shane Butler. I Tatti Renaissance Library, vol. 21 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006), 16–17, 20–3, 26–31. Includes facing Latin text.

• Selected Letters, translated by Clarence H. Miller, in “Appendix A: More’s Latin Sources” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Volume 1. English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things, 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.

• [Selections], translated by W. Parr Greswell, in Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Joannes Picus of Mirandula, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminus, and the Amalthei, edited by W. Parr Greswell, 2nd ed. (Manchester: R. and W. Dean, 1805), 153–367. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• Praise of Lorenzo (And Critique of Dante and Petrarca), in The Three Crowns of Florence: Humanist Assessments of Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio, edited by David Thompson and Alan F. Nagel (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), 148–52.

• Three Epistles of John Picus, translated by Thomas More and modernized by W. E. Campbell, in The English Works of Sir Thomas More, vol. I, edited by W. E. Campbell (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1931), 363–74. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• Letters, translated by Edward Jesup, in The Lives of Picus and Pascal: Faithfully Collected from the Most Authentick Accounts of Them, To which is Subjoin’d  a Parallel between those Two Christian Worthies (London: W. Burton, 1723), 33–47. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• To his nephew, Iohn Franciscus, and To Iohn Franciscus his nephew, translated by W. H., in Twelve Rules, and Weapons concerning the Spirituall Battel. Together with a briefe exposition upon the sixteene Psalm: With two most worthie Epistles, written in Latin by that most worthy and noble Gentleman Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula. And translated into English for the benefite of all good Christian Souldiers in the Spirituall Battaile (London: Iohn Windet, 1589), 28–39.

Sonetti

• [Sonetto V] “Amor, focoso giacio e fredda face,” [Sonetto VI] “Quando del sol la corruscante lampa,” [Sonetto VII] “Un sguardo altero e vergognoso e vago,” [Sonetto XVI] “Ecco doppo la nebia el cel sereno,” [Sonetto XVII] “Che fai, alma? che pensi? Ragion, desta,” [Sonetto XIX] “Che bisogna che piú nel mar si raspe,” [Sonetto XXVI] “Se ’basso dir di mei suspir in rima,” [Sonetto XXXII] “Se ellecto m’hai nel cel per tuo consorte,” [Sonetto XXXVII] “Sí como del mondo umbra senza luce,” [Sonetto XXXIX] “Chiara alma, chiara luce, chiaro onore,” [Sonetto XLI] “Io me sento da quel che era en pria,” [Sonetto XLV] “Misera Italia e tutta Europa intorno,” in Melancolia Poetica: A Dual Language Anthology of Italian Poetry 1160-1560, translated by Marc A. Cirigliano (Leicester: Troubador Publishing, 2007), 245-55. 

• [Sonetto XXXII] “Se ellecto m’hai nel cel per tuo consorte,” in Brian Copenhaver, “Studied as an Oration: Readers of Pico’s Letters, Ancient and Modern,” in Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his Influence, edited by Stephen Clucas, Peter J. Forshaw and Valery Rees (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2011), 151–98, at 164.

• [Sonetto XLI] “Io me sento da quel che era en pria,” in S. A. Farmer, The Problem of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: The Early Writings (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1977), 60.

• [Sonetto IV] “Dapoi che doi begli ochi, che mi fanno,” in J. M. Rigg, “Introduction” in Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: His Life by his Nephew Giovanni Francesco Pico: Also Three of his Letters; His Interpretation of Psalm XVI; His Twelve Rules of a Christian Life; His Twelve Points of a Perfect Lover; and his Deprecatory Hymn to God, translated by Sir Thomas More (London: David Nutt, 1890), v–xl, at xxxi. An electronic version of this text is available here.

Carmina

• [Selections], S. A. Farmer, The Problem of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: The Early Writings (Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1977), 53–66.

Duodecim regulae

• The twelve rules of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, partly urging, partly directing men in their spiritual battle, translated by Clarence H. Miller, in “Appendix A: More’s Latin Sources” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Volume 1. English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things, 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.

• Twelve Rules of John Picus Earl of Mirandula, Partly Exciting, Partly Directing a Man in Spiritual Battle, translated by Thomas More and modernized by W. E. Campbell, in The English Works of Sir Thomas More, vol. I, edited by W. E. Campbell (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1931), 381–5. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• Rules, translated by Edward Jesup, in The Lives of Picus and Pascal: Faithfully Collected from the Most Authentick Accounts of Them, To which is Subjoin’d  a Parallel between those Two Christian Worthies (London: W. Burton, 1723), 23–33. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• Twelve Rules of Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula, partly stirring up, partly directing man in the spirituall battaile, translated by W. H., in Twelve Rules, and Weapons concerning the Spirituall Battel. Together with a briefe exposition upon the sixteene Psalm: With two most worthie Epistles, written in Latin by that most worthy and noble Gentleman Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula. And translated into English for the benefite of all good Christian Souldiers in the Spirituall Battaile (London: Iohn Windet, 1589), 13–16.

• The Rules of a Christian Lyfe Made by Johan Picus the Elder Erle of Mirandula, translated by Sir Thomas Elyot (1534), in Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: His Life by his Nephew Giovanni Francesco Pico: Also Three of his Letters; His Interpretation of Psalm XVI; His Twelve Rules of a Christian Life; His Twelve Points of a Perfect Lover; and his Deprecatory Hymn to God, translated by Sir Thomas More (London: David Nutt, 1890), 89–93. An electronic version of this text is available here. Also published as: The Rules of a Christian Life Made by Iohn̄ Picus the elder Erle of Mirandula, in Thomas Lupsets, Workes (London: 1546): 195–9. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• The Rules of the Christian Lyfe, in The Following of Christ translated out of Latin into Englishe, newlie corrected and amended. Wherento also is added the golden epistle of Sainct Bernarde. And nowe lastelie the rules of a Christian lyfe, made by Iohn Picus the elder earle of Mirandula ([Rouen: G. L'Oyselet] 1585). Electronic versions are available here and here.

• Here begyn .xij. rules of Iohan Picus erle of Myrandula partely excytyng partely dy∣tectynge a man in spyrytuall batayle, in Here is co[n]teyned the lyfe of Iohan Picus erle of Myrandula a grete lorde of Italy an excellent connynge man in all sciences, [and] verteous of lyuynge with dyuers epystles [and] other werkes of ye sayd Iohan Picus full of grete science vertue [and] wysedome, whose lyfe [and] werkes bene worthy [and] dygne to be redde and often to be had in memorye, translated by Thomas More (London: Wynkyn de Worde [1525]). An electronic version of this text is available here.

• Twelve Rules of John Picus Earl of Mirandula, Partly Exciting, Partly Directing a Man in Spiritual Battle in The Life of John Picus Earl of Mirandola: 500th Anniversary Edition, translated by Thomas More, edited by Jeffrey S. Lehman (Center for Thomas More Studies, 2010), 50-58. An electronic version of this text is available here.

Duodecim arma spiritualis pugnae

• The Twelve Weapons in Spiritual Battle, translated by Clarence H. Miller, in “Appendix A: More’s Latin Sources” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Volume 1. English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things, 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.

• The Twelve Weapons of Spiritual Battle, Which Every Man Should Have at Hand when the Pleasure of a Sinful Temptation Cometh to Mind, translated by Thomas More and modernized by W. E. Campbell, in The English Works of Sir Thomas More, vol. I, edited by W. E. Campbell (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1931), 386–8. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• Weapons for Spiritual War, translated by Edward Jesup, in The Lives of Picus and Pascal: Faithfully Collected from the Most Authentick Accounts of Them, To which is Subjoin’d  a Parallel between those Two Christian Worthies (London: W. Burton, 1723), 22–3. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• Twelve Weapons of Iohn Picus, Earle of Mirandula, for the spirituall battel, which man alwaies ought to have in readines, when the desire of sinne tempseth him, translated by W. H., in Twelve Rules, and Weapons concerning the Spirituall Battel. Together with a briefe exposition upon the sixteene Psalm: With two most worthie Epistles, written in Latin by that most worthy and noble Gentleman Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula. And translated into English for the benefite of all good Christian Souldiers in the Spirituall Battaile (London: Iohn Windet, 1589), 16–17.

• The .xii. wepens of spirytual batayle, in Here is co[n]teyned the lyfe of Iohan Picus erle of Myrandula a grete lorde of Italy an excellent connynge man in all sciences, [and] verteous of lyuynge with dyuers epystles [and] other werkes of ye sayd Iohan Picus full of grete science vertue [and] wysedome, whose lyfe [and] werkes bene worthy [and] dygne to be redde and often to be had in memorye, translated by Thomas More (London: Wynkyn de Worde [1525]). An electronic version of this text is available here.

• The Twelve Weapons of Spiritual Battle, Which Everyman Should Have at Hand When the Pleasure of a Sinful Temptation Cometh to Mind in The Life of John Picus Earl of Mirandola: 500th Anniversary Edition, translated by Thomas More, edited by Jeffrey S. Lehman (Center for Thomas More Studies, 2010), 58-63. An electronic version of this text is available here.

Duodecim conditiones amantis

• The Twelve Qualities of a Lover, translated by Clarence H. Miller, in “Appendix A: More’s Latin Sources” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Volume 1. English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things, 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.

• The Twelve Properties or Conditions of a Lover, translated by Thomas More and modernized by W. E. Campbell, in The English Works of Sir Thomas More, vol. I, edited by W. E. Campbell (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1931), 389–94. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• The XII Propertees or Condicyons of a Lover, translated by Sir Thomas More (Ditchling Common: St. Dominic's Press 1933). An electronc version of this text is available here.

• Twelve conditions of a lover, by Iohn Picus of Mirandula, translated by W. H., in Twelve Rules, and Weapons concerning the Spirituall Battel. Together with a briefe exposition upon the sixteene Psalm: With two most worthie Epistles, written in Latin by that most worthy and noble Gentleman Iohn Picus Earle of Mirandula. And translated into English for the benefite of all good Christian Souldiers in the Spirituall Battaile (London: Iohn Windet, 1589), 17–18.

• The .xij. [pro}]pertees or cōdicyons of a lover, in Here is co[n]teyned the lyfe of Iohan Picus erle of Myrandula a grete lorde of Italy an excellent connynge man in all sciences, [and] verteous of lyuynge with dyuers epystles [and] other werkes of ye sayd Iohan Picus full of grete science vertue [and] wysedome, whose lyfe [and] werkes bene worthy [and] dygne to be redde and often to be had in memorye, translated by Thomas More (London: Wynkyn de Worde [1525]). An electronic version of this text is available here.

• The Twelve Properties or Conditions of a Lover in The Life of John Picus Earl of Mirandola: 500th Anniversary Edition, translated by Thomas More, edited by Jeffrey S. Lehman (Center for Thomas More Studies, 2010), 63-71. An electronic version of this text is available here.

Deprecatoria ad Deum

• A Prayer to God for Mercy, translated by Clarence H. Miller, in “Appendix A: More’s Latin Sources” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Volume 1. English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things, edited by Anthony S. G. Edwards, Katherine Gardiner Rodgers, and Clarence H. Miller (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), 378–9. Includes facing Latin text.

• A Prayer of Picus Mirandula Unto God, translated by Thomas More and modernized by W. E. Campbell, in The English Works of Sir Thomas More, vol. I, edited by W. E. Campbell (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1931), 394–6. An electronic version of this text is available here.

• A Prayer of Picus Mirandula unto God, in Here is co[n]teyned the lyfe of Iohan Picus erle of Myrandula a grete lorde of Italy an excellent connynge man in all sciences, [and] verteous of lyuynge with dyuers epystles [and] other werkes of ye sayd Iohan Picus full of grete science vertue [and] wysedome, whose lyfe [and] werkes bene worthy [and] dygne to be redde and often to be had in memorye, translated by Thomas More (London: Wynkyn de Worde [1525]). An electronic version of this text is available here.

• A Prayer of Picus Mirandula unto God in The Life of John Picus Earl of Mirandola: 500th Anniversary Edition, translated by Thomas More, edited by Jeffrey S. Lehman (Center for Thomas More Studies, 2010), 71-74. An electronic version of this text is available here.

Ioannis Pici Mirandulae Vita (1496), by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (1469–1533)

• Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola, Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration , edited and translated by Brian P. Copenhaver. I Tatti Renaissance Library. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022), 3–77.
• The Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, translated by Clarence H. Miller, in “Appendix A: More’s Latin Sources” of The Complete Works of St. Thomas More. Volume 1. English Poems, Life of Pico, The Last Things, 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.
• The Life of John Picus, Earl of Mirandula, translated by Thomas More and modernized by W. E. Campbell, in The English Works of Sir Thomas More, vol. I, edited by W. E. Campbell (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / The Dial Press, 1931), 349–62. An electronic version of this text is available here. The Lyfe of Iohn̄ Picus Erle of Mirandula, in Here is co[n]teyned the lyfe of Iohan Picus erle of Myrandula a grete lorde of Italy an excellent connynge man in all sciences, [and] verteous of lyuynge with dyuers epystles [and] other werkes of ye sayd Iohan Picus full of grete science vertue [and] wysedome, whose lyfe [and] werkes bene worthy [and] dygne to be redde and often to be had in memorye, translated by Thomas More (London: Wynkyn de Worde [1525] ). An electronic version of this text is available here.
• The Life of John Picus, in The Life of John Picus Earl of Mirandola: 500th Anniversary Edition, translated by Thomas More, edited by Jeffrey S. Lehman (Center for Thomas More Studies, 2010), 3-26. An electronic version of this text is available here.

Studies and Commentaries

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Aasdalen, Unn Irene. “The First Pico-Ficino Controversy,” in Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his Influence, edited by Stephen Clucas, Peter J. Forshaw and Valery Rees (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2011), 67–88.

Aasdalen, Unn Irene. Climbing Diotima’s Ladder: Marsilio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Lorenzo dei Medici: Their Neoplatonic Commentaries in Italian (Ph.D. dissertation, University of London, 2008).

Aasdalen, Unn Irene. “On the Dignity of Philosophers: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man,” in Innovation and Tradition: Essays on Renaissance Art and Culture, edited by Dag T. Andersson and Roy Eriksen (Rome: Edizioni Kappa, 2000), 26–33.

Abrahams, Israel. “Pico della Mirandola,” in Hebrew Union College Jubilee Volume (1875–1925), edited David Philipson, H. G. Enelow, K. Kohler, Jacob Z. Lauterbach, Jacob Mann, Julian Morgenstern, William Rosenau (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1925), 317–31.

Adamson, Peter. “The Count of Concord: Pico della Mirandola,” “What a Piece of Work is man: Manetti and Pico on Human Nature,” in Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), 247–260.

Aertsen, Jan A. “The Doctrine of the Transcendentals in Renaissance Philosophy,” chapter 13 in Medieval Philosophy as Transcendental Thought: From Philip the Chancellor (ca. 1225) to Francisco Suárez (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 569–85. 

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Edelheit, Amos. “Pico della Mirandola’s Exposition of Psalm 6,” chapter 3.3 of Scholastic Florence: Moral Psychology in the Quattrocento (Leiden: Brill, 2014), 93–4.

Edelheit, Amos. “Pico’s Concept of Philosophy,” Schifanoia 46/47 (2014), 63–2.

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Egan, Kathleen Crozier. “On the Indignity of Man: The Quarrel between Boiardo and Pico della Mirandola,” in Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in America, edited by Jo Ann Cavallo and Charles Ross (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies; 1998), 237–57.

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Fantazzi, Charles E. “Vives’ Fabula de homine as a Dramatic Representation of Pico’s Oratio,” Neolatinisten Nieuwsbrief 15 (2003), 10–19.

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Farmer, S. A. “Pico’s Roman Debate,” “Deciphering the 900 Theses,” “Pico and Anti-Pico,” chapters 1, 3, and 4 of Syncretism in the West: Pico’s 900 Theses (1486): The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998), 1–58, 97–132, 133–179. Selections are available here, here, here, and here. The author’s errata page is here.

Fietz, Lothar. “The Chameleon and the Player: Reflections on the Relation between English and Continental Thought,” Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 110 (1992), 85–99.

Fitzgerald, Desmond J. “Some Notes on Pico’s Dispute with Astrology,” in Arts libéraux et philosophie au moyen âge: Acts du quatrième congrès international de philosophie médiévale (Montréal: Institut d’ètudes médiévales, Paris: Libraire Philosophique J. Vrin, 1969), 1049–55.

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Frazer-Imregh, Monika. “What Is the Purpose of Human Life? Immediate Experience of God in Pico’s Works,” in The Immediacy of Mystical Experience in the European Tradition, edited by Miklós Vassányi, Enikő Sepsi, and Anikó Daróczi (Cham: Springer, 2017), 123–41.

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

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Grassi, Ernesto. “Giovanni Pico’s Letter ‘De genere dicendi philosophorum,’ the Problem,” “Pico’s Departure from the Prevalence of the Rational Speech,” and “The Unity of Content and Form in the Originative Philosophical Act,” in Rhetoric as Philosophy: The Humanist Tradition, trans. John Michael Krois and Azizeh Azodi (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1980 [Reprinted, with a new preface, Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001]), 55–6, 56–9, 59–60.

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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. An electronic version of this text is available here.

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Hanegraaf, Wouter J. “Secret Moses: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Christian Kabbalah,” in Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 53–68.

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Harbison, E. Harris. “The Revival of Learning: Petrarch, Valla, Pico della Mirandola, John Colet,” chapter II of The Christian Scholar in the Age of the Reformation (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1956), 31–67.

Heath, Maureen P. “Pico della Mirandola: The Self-Made Man Meme,” chapter 6 of The Christian Roots of Individualism, edited by Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 119–147.

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Hill, Juliana, née Cotton. “Appendix II: The Deaths of Politian and Pico della Mirandola,” and “Appendix III: The Bones of Politian and Pico della Mirandola in 1940,” pages 12-13, appended to a separate reprint with new pagination of  “Death and Politian,” Durham University Journal 46 (1954): 96-105. The existence of the expanded reprint is indicated in the last footnote of the journal article. The cover of the reprint notes: “This article, ‘Death and Politian,’ reprinted by permission from the Durham University Journal, June 1954, with corrections, four appendices and two illustrations.”  The appendices that concern Pico are not present in the version of the article appearing in the Durham University Journal. Electronic versions of these two appendices can be found here.

Howlett, Sophia. Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

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Online Latin Texts

Opera

• De hominis dignitate, Heptaplus, De ente et uno, et scritti vari, ed. Eugenio Garin (Firenze: Vallecchi Editore, 1942). An electronic version of this text is available here.

Opera omnia

• Opera omnia (Basel, 1557). Also here.
• Opera (Venezia, 1519)
• Opera

Oratio

• Oratio de hominis dignitate
• Oratio de hominis dignitae Ioannis Pici Mirandulani Concordiae Comitis
• Oratio de hominis dignitate
• Oratio Ioannis Pici Miran. Concordiae Comitis (Editio princeps, Bologna: Benedetto Faelli, 1496)
• Oratio Ioannis Pici Miran. Concordiae Comitis (Bononia: Benedictus Hectoris, 1496)
• Oratio Ioannis Pici Miran. Concordiae Comitis

Conclusiones DCCCC

• Conclusiones CM publice disputandae
• Conclusiones sive Theses DCCCC

Apologia

• Apologia

Carmina

• Carmina
• Poesie volgari

Other Bibliographic Reference Works:

• Gilbhard, Thomas. “Paralipomena pichiana: A propos einer Pico-Bibliographie,” Accademia: Revue de la Société Marsile Ficin 7 (2005), 81–94.
• Quaquarelli, L., and M. V. Dougherty. “Bibliografia del XIX e XX Secolo,” reprinted in 2007 by Leo S. Olschki Editore. Originally published without attribution in: Pichiana: Bibliografia delle edizioni e degli studi, ed. Leonardo Quaquarelli and Zita Zanardi (Florence: Leo S. Olschski, 2005), 335–410.
• Don Karr. The Study of Christian Cabala in English. 2012 Edition.

Articles on Pathology:

• Benazzi, Stefano, Ekaterina Stansfield, Ottmar Kullmer, Luca Fiorenza, Giorgio Gruppioni. “Geometric Morphometric Methods for Bone Reconstruction: The Mandibular Condylar Process of Pico della Mirandola,”  The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology 292 (2009), 1088–97. Electronic versions of this article are available here and here.
• Buti, Laura, Giorgio Gruppioni, and Stefano Benazzi, “Facial Reconstruction of Famous Historical Figures: Between Science and Art,” in Studies in Forensic Biohistory: Anthropological Perspectives,  edited by Christopher M. Stojanowski and William N. Duncan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016): 191–212.
• Gallello, Gianni, Elisabetta Cilli, Fulvio Bartoli, Massimo Andretta, Lucio Calcagnile, Agustin Pastor, Miguel de la Guardia, Patrizia Serventi, Alberto Marino, Stefano Benazzi, and Giorgio Gruppioni, “Poisoning histories in the Italian renaissance: The case of Pico della Mirandola and Angelo Poliziano,” Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine 56 (2018): 83-9.

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