| Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola's Disputationes Adversus Astrologiam Divinatricem and Its Reception Contributor(s): Akopyan (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 9004363602 ISBN-13: 9789004363601 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Medieval - Science | Cosmology - Body, Mind & Spirit | Astrology - General |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.15 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
