Few Renaissance humanists are as famous as Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Yet his nachleben is complex; beginning with his own nephew, Gianfrancesco Pico, scholars have remade Giovanni Pico in their own image. This talk will untangle a few long lasting scholarly traditions about Giovanni Pico and Renaissance humanism that in part originate in Gianfrancesco’s editorial work on Giovanni’s writings.
Denis Robichaud, Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies, is an intellectual historian and historian of philosophy who works on Platonism, Neoplatonism, Italian Renaissance humanism, and classical traditions.
The talk will be followed by a discussion and a reception.
Co-sponsored by Italian Studies at Notre Dame and the William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies.
Originally published at italianstudies.nd.edu.