Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man

Francesco Borghesi teaches in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Sydney. Among his publications are Concordia, pietas, docta religio (2004) and the forthcoming Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (2012). Michael Papio is an Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Keen and Violent Remedies: Social Satire and the Grotesque in Masuccio Salernitano's Novellino (2000) and the translator of Boccaccio's Expositions on Dante's Comedy (2009). Massimo Riva is a Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University, Rhode Island. He has also taught at the University of Sydney, Australia, Northwestern University, Illinois, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of Italian Tales: An Anthology of Contemporary Italian Fiction (2004) and co-editor of Renato Poggioli: An Intellectual Life (2011).

Part I. Preface, Introduction, Overview: 1. Preface: history of the project and criteria for the current edition M. Riva; 2. The historical and biographical background of the oration P. C. Bori; 3. Chronology F. Borghesi; 4. The Oration's printed editions M. Papio; 5. Interpretations F. Borghesi; 6. Overview; Part II. Text: 7. Latin text with facing English translation and commentary in the footnotes; Part III. Images: 8. Four images from the Palatine manuscript; Bibliography.