Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem and Its Reception (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Brill
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 325
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2021
Authors:	Ovanes Akopyan
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
ISBN-13:	978-90-04-36360-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Cosmology & the universe Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Astrology > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600 > General Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Astrology > General
LSN:	90-04-36360-2
Barcode:	9789004363601

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