Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni. - Opera omnia, theologorum e - Lot 257

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Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni. - Opera omnia, theologorum e - Lot 257
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni. - Opera omnia, theologorum et philosophorum, sive controversia, principis: Viri sive linguarum, sive rerum et humanarum et divinarum cognitionem spectes, doctrina et ingenio admirando. Basel, Henri Pierre, 1557. In-folio covered with soft parchment overlay, trace of laces - Parchment heavily browned, damp stains on most leaves - [16 ff.], 923 pp. numerous initials, printer's mark on last leaf. With numerous pagination errors for pages 60 paginated 50, 194 paginated 184, 360 paginated 260, 690 paginated 790, 772 paginated 872, 795 paginated 597, 808 paginated 818, 813 paginated 803, 848 paginated 748, 850 paginated 750, 851 paginated 751 and 895-896 which are paginated 899-900. Pages 855 to 862, i.e. leaves Ccc2 to Ccc5, are missing. - A beautiful and unusual edition of the complete works of the brilliant Florentine humanist (1463-1494), who sought to reconcile Platonism, Aristotelianism and Christian Scholasticism. The work includes Johannes Reuchlin's De arte Kabbalistica, inspired by Pico della Mirandola.
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