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Erin Maglaque: Pico in Purgatory, 9 October 2025
Nine Hundred Conclusions
by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, translated by and Brian P. Copenhaver.
Harvard, 611 pp., £29.95, March,978 0 674 29891 0 Show More
by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, translated by and Brian P. Copenhaver.
Harvard, 611 pp., £29.95, March,
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Sublime Language
by Edward Wilson-Lee.
William Collins, 273 pp., £25, January,978 0 00 862179 7 Show More
by Edward Wilson-Lee.
William Collins, 273 pp., £25, January,
Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age
by Ada Palmer.
Apollo, 745 pp., £30, February,978 1 0359 1012 0 Show More
by Ada Palmer.
Apollo, 745 pp., £30, February,
“... Magic, incantation, Orphic music: all moved him into the frenzy necessary for self-dissolution.Edward Wilson-Lee’s The Grammar of Angels takes up Pico’s interest in ecstatic states. It’s not a biography of Pico (too bad, since we could do with a fresh one in English) but a wide-ranging cultural history of mesmeric sound, from Plato to the ... ”
