Event Description

For next Director’s Seminar at Warburg Institute, Brian Copenhaver (UCLA) will give a talk on “A new look at Pico,” in conversation with Valery Rees (School of Philosophy and Economic Science) and Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute)

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola has been famous for a long time – but in modern times for the wrong reason: he did not write a stirring speech about human dignity.  He earned his fame in different ways: for his fascinating life-story, his convincing criticisms of astrology and his invention of Christian Kabbalah. Brian Copenhaver’s book, Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His Oration in Modern Memory (2019), focuses on this last achievement and why it was neglected until the end of the last century.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 17:30–19:00 GMT

Source: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/23870

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