Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico Della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory

by Brian P. Copenhaver

"This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western culture."
--James Hankins, Harvard University

Pico della Mirandola died in 1494 at the age of thirty-one. During his brief and extraordinary life, he invented Christian Kabbalah in a book that was banned by the Catholic Church after he offered to debate his ideas on religion and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674238265
• ISBN13: 9780674238268
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 704 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"