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S.F. Book Fair
Charles W. Traylen
Sept. '76 $5.00

(Pico della Mirandola, Count Giovanni)
Picus de Mirandula, Johannes. (1463-1494)
Opera f°
Venice: Bernardinus Venetus de Vitalibus
I. 9 Oct 1498 II. 14 Aug 1498 Latin H6
Goff P634 HC 12993 BMC V p 548
Cop Harv CL, HEHL (2,1-), Columbia

262 leaves. 3a: 44 lines + headline, 245 (251) x 147
(c marginalia 166) mm. Types 111R.; 85G.
Woodcut capitals; capital spaces, c guide letters.

First certain date connected c Bernadinus is that of Fracentianus,
Quaestiones in Consequentiis Strodi, completed by
Christophonus de Bottis (Cremonenois) + Bernadinus on
10 Jan 1494, probably 1494/5 HC 7312. He did not,
however, settle down to a regular output until early in 1498
+ most of his work belongs to the 16th C. (until 1539)
In his beginnings he printed chiefly works of humanistic interest.
The humanist Pico was a member of the Platonic Academy
of Lorenzo de Medici. He attempted to apply the
Kabbalah to explanation of Christian mysteries. His orthodoxy
challenged, he successfully defended it in his Apologia.
In his latter years, influenced by Savonarola, he planned
an ascetic life.
-- Picus de Mirandula, Johannes Franciscus (nephew of Johannes
Picus de Mirandula)
Italian philosopher + scholar - an exponent of Renaissance
Platonism - still admired as a representative of Renaissance
learning.
Pico's writings - Oratio commentary explaining the doctrines of the neo-
Platonic cosmology (1486), 900 theses or conclusions written for the
dispute in Rome, the Dignity of Man, Apology, Heptaplus,
his metaphysical treatise on The Being + The One, and a
treatise on astrology.