Cover illustration: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494), by Cristofano dell’Altissimo. The artist copied the portrait from the original in the Florentine Giovio Portrait Series for Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici in the second half of the 16th century.
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Names: Edelheit, Amos, author.
Title: A philosopher at the crossroads : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s encounter with scholastic philosophy / by Amos Edelheit.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] | Series: Brill’s studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 338 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021059380 (print) | LCCN 2021059381 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004445093 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004509467 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494. | Scholasticism. | Humanism.
Classification: LCC B785.P54 E34 2022 (print) | LCC B785.P54 (ebook) | DDC 195—dc23/eng/20220127
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