Vera relazione sulla vita e i fatti
di Giovanni Pico Conte della Mirandola
Nino Aragno Editore, 2010, 216
p.
Myth and
anti-myth blend in the human adventure of Giovanni Pico, who had a
passion for esoterism and used to mix with
Jews. He dreamed about a new universal knowledge, branded by the Hebrew
kabbalah that he discovered first among the Christians. He was persecuted
for his heretical ideas and died at only 31in 1492, perhaps gifted.
In this
book Giulio Busi
mixes historical novel and essay, and gives a new, pleasant, extremely
readable and philologically correct narrative.
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Giulio Busi
was born in Bologna (Italy) in 1960. After having taught Hebrew at the Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice, he is now a Professor at the Freie Universität of
Berlin, where he directs the Institute of Jewish Studies. At the
beginning of the 1980’s his centers of interest were mainly medieval
studies, particularly Hebrew grammar and booklore. In the following years
his work expanded, focusing especially on Jewish symbols and Kabbalah, of
which he analyzed historical development, literary values and aesthetic
implications. He dedicated quite a number of studies to the history of
the relationship between Jewish and Christian culture in Italy during the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He is the general editor of a series
that aims to publish the entire kabbalistic
library of the humanist Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
Busi is the author of nearly one
hundred scholarly publications, which include several books, many essays,
and critical editions of Jewish texts. Since 2000, he has contributed a
weekly column to the cultural supplement of the Italian economic daily,
«Il Sole 24Ore».
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