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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part 1 Scholastic Formation and Training in Italy and Paris -- Chapter 1 Status Quaestionis -- Chapter 2 Pico in Padua (1480-1482) and Beyond -- Chapter 3 Pico in Paris: When and What -- Part 2 Scholastic Traces and Influence. Pico's Attitude towards the Scholastic Tradition -- Chapter 4 A Historical Approach: Scholastic Thinkers and the New Status of Philosophy -- Chapter 5 The Apology as a Case-Study -- Chapter 6 Pico and Albert the Great -- Chapter 7 Pico and Thomas Aquinas -- Chapter 8 Pico and Francis of Mayronnes -- Chapter 9 Pico and John Duns Scotus -- Chapter 10 Pico and Henry of Ghent -- Chapter 11 Pico and Giles of Rome -- Part 3 Scholastic Reactions to Pico and the Reception of His Thought and Method -- Chapter 12 Bernardo Torni against Four Theses Concerning Natural Philosophy -- Chapter 13 Galgani da Siena against a Thesis on the Nature of Sound -- Chapter 14 Pedro Garsia against the Apology -- Chapter 15 Picus ut pica locutus est: Giovanni Caroli against Certain Theological Theses -- Chapter 16 Antonio Cittadini di Faenza against De ente et uno -- Chapter 17 Pietro Pomponazzi against Pico on Astrology and Beyond: Modification vs. Rejection -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Acknowledgements.

"This study explains how one of the remarkable thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), broke new ground by engaging with the scholastic tradition while maintaining his 'humanist' sensibilities. A central claim of the monograph is that Pico was a 'philosopher at the crossroads', whose sophisticated reading of numerous scholastic thinkers enabled him to advance a different conception of philosophy. The scholastic background to Pico's work has been neglected by historians of the period. This omission has served to create not only an unreliable portrait of Pico's thought, but a more general ignorance of the dynamism of scholastic thought in late fifteenth-century Italy. The books argues that these deficiencies of modern scholarship stand in need of correction"--

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Scholasticism in a Florentine Setting? -- 1 A Portrait of a 'Thomist' in the Late-Fifteenth Century -- 2 A Renaissance Discourse on Evil -- 3 The Psychology of the Voluntary Act of Penitence -- 4 A Discussion of Conscience, Cognition and Will -- 5 A Debate Concerning the Intellect and the Will -- 6 A Theory of Will, Human Dignity, and Freedom -- 7 On the Importance of Self-Reflexivity -- 8 A Renaissance Discourse on Love -- Conclusion: A New Renaissance Anthropology? -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum et Rerum.

Giovanni Caroli : life and works -- Giovanni Caroli in modern scholarly literature -- The historical background of the Liber dierum Lucensium : the drama of the Dominican observant reform movement in Italy in the fifteenth century -- The sources used in the Liber dierum Lucensium -- Style and genre of the Liber dierum Lucensium : between scholasticism and humanism -- Historical and cultural assessment of the Liber dierum Lucensium -- A synopsis of the Liber dierum Lucensium -- The codex and the method used in the edition and in the translation