PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Francesco (1469-1533). Examen...
Hammer
€650
PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Francesco (1469-1533). Examen vanitatis doctrinae gentium, et veritatis Christianae disciplinae. Mirandola: Mazzocchi, 1520.
Study copy of the first edition of one of the most significant works by Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, nephew of the celebrated Giovanni Pico. Written in open opposition to pagan philosophical culture and Renaissance scepticism, the Examen vanitatis represents one of the most extensive defences of the superiority of Christian revelation over the wisdom of the ancients. Pico subjects the principal philosophical schools of antiquity to rigorous critical examination, contrasting their supposed vanity with the truth of Christian doctrine, an approach that was to exercise considerable influence on sixteenth-century religious thought. The edition is also of particular typographical interest, being one of only two books printed at Mirandola.
Folio (310 × 220 mm). Spaces for initials with guide letters; printer's device on the recto of the final leaf (lacking quires E-E6 and LL-LL6, and leaves V5-X1). Contemporary full vellum, manuscript title to upper cover. (1)
Sale price
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
Hammer
€650
PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Francesco (1469-1533). Examen vanitatis doctrinae gentium, et veritatis Christianae disciplinae. Mirandola: Mazzocchi, 1520.
Study copy of the first edition of one of the most significant works by Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola, nephew of the celebrated Giovanni Pico. Written in open opposition to pagan philosophical culture and Renaissance scepticism, the Examen vanitatis represents one of the most extensive defences of the superiority of Christian revelation over the wisdom of the ancients. Pico subjects the principal philosophical schools of antiquity to rigorous critical examination, contrasting their supposed vanity with the truth of Christian doctrine, an approach that was to exercise considerable influence on sixteenth-century religious thought. The edition is also of particular typographical interest, being one of only two books printed at Mirandola.
Folio (310 × 220 mm). Spaces for initials with guide letters; printer's device on the recto of the final leaf (lacking quires E-E6 and LL-LL6, and leaves V5-X1). Contemporary full vellum, manuscript title to upper cover. (1)
Sale price
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
