Topics: Pico Della Mirandola’s 1496 Disputationes contra astrologiam divinatricem (Disputations Against Divinatory Astrology); anti-astrological polemics in the Renaissance; changes and continuities in Pico’s life (i.e., re: Savonarola); ongoing debates in Pico scholarship; Renaissance studies; the 900 Conclusiones; Heptaplus; De Ente et Uno; Platonism vs. Aristotelianism, Cabala/Kabbalah, etc.
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