Debating the stars in the Italian Renaissance : : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem and its reception /

Debating the stars in the Italian Renaissance : : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem and its reception / / by Ovanes Akopyan.

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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 h...

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Superior document:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 325
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Akopyan, Ovanes,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 325.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part 1: Please supply Part Title
  • 1 Scientia naturalis, Kabbalah and Celestial Spheres: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on Astrology (1486-1493)
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Commento alla Canzone d'amore
  • 3 The Trilogy
  • 4 The Heptaplus and the Expositiones in Psalmos
  • Part 2: Please supply Part Title
  • 2 The Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem: Introductory Remarks
  • 1 Text and Its Structure
  • 2 Edition and Authorship
  • 3 Reading Texts: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and His Sources
  • 4 Me quoque adolescentem olim fallebat: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Versus Prisca theologia
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Prisca theologia in Giovanni Pico's Writings before the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
  • 3 On the Origin of Astrology: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Versus Prisca theologia
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 5 'Princeps aliorum' and His Followers: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the 'Astrological Tradition' in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Use of Astrological Techniques and Its Controversies
  • 3 Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
  • 4 The Great Conjunctions, Abu Ma'shar and 'Other' Astrologers
  • 5 Medieval Christian Astrologers and the Problem of Religion in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 6 Back to Aristotle? Natural Philosophy in the Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
  • Part 3: Please supply Part Title
  • 7 Ideological Appropriation of Giovanni Pico's Disputationes: Girolamo Savonarola and his Contro gli astrologi
  • 8 Praenotio, Prisca haeresis and Astrology: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola Between Savonarola and Giovanni Pico
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The De rerum praenotione and the Quaestio de falsitate astrologiae: Praenotio Versus Prophetia
  • 3 The Controversial Use of (Anti-)Astrological Authorities in the De rerum praenotione
  • 4 Prisca theologia as prisca haeresis
  • 5 Aristotle and Natural Philosophical Arguments Against Astrology
  • 6 Conclusion
  • 9 With 'Latins' Against 'Latin Vice': Maximus the Greek on Astrology
  • 10 Lucio Bellanti and the Return to 'Christian Astrology'
  • 11 Poet, Astrologer, Courtier: Giovanni Gioviano Pontano Versus Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
  • 12 Astrology in Francesco Zorzi's De harmonia mundi: A Response to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes adversus astrologiam?
  • 13 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Literature
  • Index.

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