A Philosopher at the Crossroads

Amos Edelheit, Ph.D. (2007) is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His main book publications are Ficino, Pico and Savonarola: The Evolution of Humanist Theology 1461/2–1498 (2008), Scholastic Florence: Moral Psychology in the ‘Quattrocento’ (2014), and Humanism, Theology, and Spiritual Crisis in Renaissance Florence: Giovanni Caroli’s ‘Liber dierum lucensium’ (2018).

Introduction





Part 1: Scholastic Formation and Training in Italy and Paris


1 Status Quaestionis





2 Pico in Padua (1480–1482) and Beyond





3 Pico in Paris: When and What





Part 2: Scholastic Traces and Influence. Pico’s Attitude towards the Scholastic Tradition


4 A Historical Approach: Scholastic Thinkers and the New Status of Philosophy





5 The Apology as a Case-Study





6 Pico and Albert the Great





7 Pico and Thomas Aquinas





8 Pico and Francis of Mayronnes





9 Pico and John Duns Scotus





10 Pico and Henry of Ghent





11 Pico and Giles of Rome





Part 3: Scholastic Reactions to Pico and the Reception of His Thought and Method


12 Bernardo Torni against Four Theses concerning Natural Philosophy





13 Galgani da Siena against a Thesis on the Nature of Sound





14 Pedro Garsia against the Apology





15 Picus ut pica locutus est: Giovanni Caroli against Certain Theological Theses





16 Antonio Cittadini di Faenza against De ente et uno





17 Pietro Pomponazzi against Pico on Astrology and Beyond: Modification vs. Rejection





Conclusion


Bibliography


Index