A Compendium of the Wondrous Deeds of Caterina da Racconigi: Hagiography or Philosophical Treatise?
Article | Contribuidor(es): Gabriella Zarri
Gianfrancesco Pico’s interest in Caterina da Racconigi, a mystic and prophet revered in Piedmont in the first decades of the sixteenth century, was born out of a scientific curiosity prior to becoming devout admiration. The Compendio delle cose mirabili, Gianfrancesco’s last work, written after...
Fabulae and Imaginatio in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Thought
Article | Contribuidor(es): Lucia Pappalardo
In Renaissance philosophy, the term fabula is often used to mean a poetic or fantastic tale that conceals the truth beneath metaphorical language. This article will focus on a rather different concept of fabula found in Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s works. To the younger Pico, the entire...
Written in Blood: Blood Devotion in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Staurostichon
Article | Contribuidor(es): Marco Piana
This article aims to provide an analysis of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s hymn Staurostichon in view of other examples of Savonarolan blood devotion. Staurostichon describes a supernatural event that took place in Germany between 1501 and 1503, when unusual rainfalls started to mark...
Tearing Plato to Pieces: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola and Marsilio Ficino on the History of Platonism Denis J.-J. Robichaud
Article | Contribuidor(es): Denis J.-J. Robichaud
This article considers Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s understanding of the history of Platonism in his Examen vanitatis. It analyzes his sources and methods for understanding the history of philosophy—genealogical source criticism, historiographical analysis, and comparative history—and...
Praenotio, Prisca Haeresis, and Astrology: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola between Savonarola and Giovanni Pico
Article | Contribuidor(es): Ovanes Akopyan
This article considers the place of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s ideas within the astrological debates that arose in Renaissance Italy after the publication of the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco Pico’s famous uncle....
Introduction: Special Issue, Women’s Authorial Agency and Print Culture
Article | Contribuidor(es): Marie-France Guénette
Flanders, Julia. Women Writers Online
Article | Contribuidor(es): Erin A. McCarthy
Blake, Liza, ed. Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition
Article | Contribuidor(es): Lara Dodds
Coolahan, Marie-Louise. The Reception & Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700
Fehrenbach, R. J., gen. ed. PLRE.Folger: Private Libraries in Renaissance England
Article | Contribuidor(es): Olga Stepanova
Edelstein, Dan, Paula Findlen, and Nicole Coleman. Mapping the Republic of Letters
Article | Contribuidor(es): Catherine Medici
Sly, Jordan S. The Recusant Print Network Project (Beta). Illustrating Print Network with Data-Driven Visualizations (c. 1558–1640)
Article | Contribuidor(es): Eilish Gregory
Akhimie, Patricia and Bernadette Andrea, eds. Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World
Article | Contribuidor(es): Arazoo Ferozan
Arand, Charles, Erik H. Herrmann, and Daniel L. Mattson, eds. From Wittenberg to the World: Essays on the Reformation and Its Legacy in Honor of Robert Kolb
Article | Contribuidor(es): Robert James Bast
Ardissino, Erminia et Élise Boillet, éds. Gli Italiani e la Bibbia nella prima età moderna. Leggere, interpretare, riscrivere
Article | Contribuidor(es): Franco Pierno
Argent, Alan. The Richard Baxter Treatises: A Catalogue and Guide
Article | Contribuidor(es): Sheena Jary
Bass, Marisa Anne. Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt
Article | Contribuidor(es): Marco Malvestio
Belin, Christian, Agnès Lafont et Nicholas Myers, éds. L’Image brisée aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles
Article | Contribuidor(es): Olivier Ségiun-Brault
Bouley, Bradford A. Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe
Article | Contribuidor(es): Megan C. Armstrong
Brumbaugh, Barbara. Apocalyptic History and the Protestant Cause in Sir Philip Sidney’s Revised Arcadia
Article | Contribuidor(es): Dan Breen
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