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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,
“... Jacob Burckhardt, who did much to give the book its status. And yet Pico’s writings, as Brian Copenhaver has persuasively shown, are in essence medieval. Enlightenment philosophes joked about fusty theologians debating angels dancing on the head of a pin: such was Pico. Voltaire described him as ‘a blind man guided by blind masters’. Pico ... ”
