Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola (also Gian Francesco , Giovan Francesco , Gianfrancesco ; * 1469 in Mirandola (Emilia-Romagna) ; † October 16, 1533 ibid) was an Italian philosopher and the nephew and pupil of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola .
Live and act
He was the son of Galeotto I Pico della Mirandola (1442–1499), an Italian condottiere , and Bianca Maria d'Este, daughter of Niccolò III. d'Este .
Pico became significant in the history of philosophy through his skepticism , which he formulated in his Examen vanitatis doctrinae gentium (1520) before the publication of the writings of Sextus Empiricus - which he knew, however , and thus referred to Pyrrhonism for the first time since ancient times . This skeptical position, which he defended against the Aristotelian school philosophy of his time, was entirely in the service of his Christian faith, which is why some historians of philosophy (such as Richard Popkin ) do not want to assign him a significant position in the history of the Renaissance skepticism. In addition, Pico wrote biographies of his uncle Giovanni Pico and Savonarola, whom he admired . Pico was u. a. friends with Willibald Pirckheimer and other German humanists with whom he was in correspondence.
Gianfrancesco and his last fourteen year old son Alberto were murdered by Gianfrancesco's nephew Galeotto II Pico in 1533.
expenditure
16th century editions
- Joannis Francisci Pici Mirandulani hymni heroici tres: ad Sanctissimam Trinitatem, ad Christum, et ad Virginem Mariam una cum commentariis luculentissimis . Schürer, Strasbourg 1511 ( digitized version )
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola: Opera Omnia . 2 volumes, Olms, Hildesheim 1969 (reprint of the Basel edition 1557–1573 with an introduction by Cesare Vasoli; volume 2 contains the works of Gianfrancesco Pico)
- Strix, sive de ludificatione daemonum , Bologna 1523
Modern editions
- Eckhard Keßler (ed.): Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola: About the idea. De imaginations . 3rd, improved edition. Fink, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-7705-1032-1
- Elisabetta Schisto (ed.): Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola: Vita Hieronymi Savonarolae. Olschki, Firenze 1999, ISBN 88-222-4703-5 (critical edition)
literature
- Herbert Jaumann : Handbook of scholarly culture in the early modern period . Volume 1. De Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-016069-2 , p. 513 f.
- Richard H. Popkin: The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza . University of California Press, Berkeley 1984, pp. 19-21.
- Werner Raith: The power of the image. A humanistic problem with Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (= Humanistic Library. Series 1, Volume 3). Fink, Munich 1967
- Elisabetta Scapparone: Pico, Giovan Francesco. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 83: Piacentini – Pio V. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015.
- Charles B. Schmitt: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (1469-1533) and His Critique of Aristotle (= Archives internationales d'histoire des idées. Series minor, 23). Nijhoff, The Hague 1967
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1469 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mirandola (Emilia-Romagna) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 16, 1533 |
| Place of death | Mirandola (Emilia-Romagna) |