Table of Contents
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola:Oration on the Dignity of Man
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Whatsapp
Abstract
Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. And that celebrated exclamation of Hermes Trismegistus, “What a great miracle is man, Asclepius” confirms this opinion.
Book contents
- The Renaissance: An Overview
- Renaissance Art and Science
- Church Corruption
- The Great Plague
- Christian Humanism
- Rise of National Monarchies
- Dante and the Italian Communes
- Church Corruption and the Conciliar Movement
- Medieval and Renaissance Art and Architecture
- The Copernican Revolution
- The Newtonian Cosmos
- Roger Bacon: “On Experimental Science” Year: 1268
- Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron Year: 1350–1353
- Petrarch: Letter to Lapo de Castiglionchio Year: 1351
- Petrarch: Letter to Francesco Nelli Year: 1360
- Petrus Paulus Vergerius: “Concerning Liberal Studies” Year: ca. 1400
- Christine de Pisan: The Treasure of the City of Ladies Year: ca. 1405
- Leon Alberti: On Painting Year: 1435
- Vespasiano da Bisticci: Portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici Year: ca. 1460
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man Year: 1486
- The Croyland Chronicle: Battle of Bosworth Field Year: 1486
- Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada Year: 1491
- Alhambra Decree Year: 1492
- Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus Year: 1492
- Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America Year: 1493
- A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama Year: 1497–1498
- Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly Year: 1509
- Niccoló Machiavelli: The Prince Year: 1513
- Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres Year: 1543
- Giorgio Vasari: “Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor” Year: 1550
- Michel de Montaigne: “Of the Education of Children” Year: 1579–1580
- Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger Year: 1610
- Letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to Paolo Antonio Foscarini concerning Galileo’s Theories Year: 1615
- Isaac Newton: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Year: 1687