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Preface

Contributor(s): Marco Piana

Introduction

Contributor(s): Tamar Herzig

Learned Credulity in Gianfrancesco Pico’s Strix

Contributor(s): Walter Stephens

In 1522–23, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola was involved in trials that executed ten accused witches. Soon after the trials, he published Strix, sive de ludificatione daemonum, a meticulous defence of witch-hunting. A humanistic dialogue as heavily dependent on classical literature and...

A Compendium of the Wondrous Deeds of Caterina da Racconigi: Hagiography or Philosophical Treatise?

Contributor(s): 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

Contributor(s): 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

Contributor(s): 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

Contributor(s): 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

Contributor(s): 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

Contributor(s): Marie-France Guénette

Flanders, Julia. Women Writers Online

Contributor(s): Erin A. McCarthy

Blake, Liza, ed. Margaret Cavendish’s Poems and Fancies: A Digital Critical Edition

Contributor(s): Lara Dodds

Coolahan, Marie-Louise. The Reception & Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700

Contributor(s): Marie-France Guénette

Fehrenbach, R. J., gen. ed. PLRE.Folger: Private Libraries in Renaissance England

Contributor(s): Olga Stepanova

Edelstein, Dan, Paula Findlen, and Nicole Coleman. Mapping the Republic of Letters

Contributor(s): Catherine Medici