Leonardo Mirandola as Advisory Board Member to advance its CAR-T cell projects toward clinical trials a biopharma scientist with over a decade of experience in oncology and cell therapy previously served as CSO and Interim COO at Kiromic Biopharma where he developed therapies including an FDA Fast-Track-designated allogeneic gamma-delta T-cell therapy for Stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer SOHM is leveraging its proprietary gene editing platform to enhance CAR-T cell therapy commercialization ABBIE offers advantages over traditional viral-based or CRISPR systems The company aims to improve production timelines Leonardo Mirandola come membro del Consiglio Consultivo per far avanzare i suoi progetti di cellule CAR-T verso le sperimentazioni cliniche scienziato biopharma con oltre un decennio di esperienza in oncologia e terapia cellulare ha precedentemente ricoperto il ruolo di CSO e COO ad interim presso Kiromic Biopharma dove ha sviluppato terapie tra cui una terapia allogenica con cellule T gamma-delta designata dalla FDA come Fast-Track per il carcinoma polmonare non a piccole cellule in stadio 4 SOHM sta sfruttando la sua piattaforma proprietaria di editing genetico per potenziare la commercializzazione della terapia con cellule CAR-T ABBIE offre vantaggi rispetto ai tradizionali sistemi virali o CRISPR minore complessità produttiva e meno ostacoli regolatori L'azienda mira a migliorare i tempi di produzione la fedeltà del carico genetico e l'accessibilità della finestra terapeutica Leonardo Mirandola como miembro del Consejo Asesor para impulsar sus proyectos de células CAR-T hacia ensayos clínicos científico biopharma con más de una década de experiencia en oncología y terapia celular previamente se desempeñó como CSO y COO interino en Kiromic Biopharma incluyendo una terapia alogénica de células T gamma-delta designada por la FDA con Fast-Track para cáncer de pulmón no microcítico en estadio 4 SOHM está aprovechando su plataforma propietaria de edición genética para mejorar la comercialización de la terapia con células CAR-T ABBIE ofrece ventajas sobre los sistemas tradicionales basados en virus o CRISPR menor complejidad en la fabricación y menos obstáculos regulatorios La compañía busca mejorar los tiempos de producción la fidelidad del material genético y la accesibilidad de la ventana terapéutica (OTC:SHMN)는 CAR-T 세포 프로젝트를 임상 시험 단계로 진전시키기 위해 레오나르도 미란돌라 박사를 자문위원으로 임명했습니다 미란돌라 박사는 10년 이상의 종양학 및 세포 치료 경험을 가진 바이오제약 과학자로 이전에 Kiromic Biopharma에서 CSO 및 임시 COO로 재직하며 FDA의 패스트트랙 지정을 받은 4기 비소세포 폐암 치료용 동종 감마-델타 T세포 치료제를 포함한 치료법을 개발했습니다 SOHM은 자체 유전자 편집 플랫폼 ABBIE를 활용하여 CAR-T 세포 치료제 상용화를 강화하고 있습니다 ABBIE는 기존의 바이러스 기반 또는 CRISPR 시스템에 비해 비용 효율성 (OTC:SHMN) a nommé Dr Leonardo Mirandola membre du conseil consultatif afin de faire progresser ses projets de cellules CAR-T vers des essais cliniques scientifique en biopharmacie avec plus de dix ans d'expérience en oncologie et thérapie cellulaire a précédemment occupé les postes de CSO et COO intérimaire chez Kiromic Biopharma dont une thérapie allogénique par cellules T gamma-delta bénéficiant d'une désignation Fast-Track de la FDA pour le cancer du poumon non à petites cellules de stade 4 SOHM exploite sa plateforme propriétaire d'édition génétique pour améliorer la commercialisation de la thérapie par cellules CAR-T ABBIE présente des avantages par rapport aux systèmes traditionnels à base virale ou CRISPR de complexité de fabrication réduite et de moindres obstacles réglementaires L'entreprise vise à améliorer les délais de production la fidélité du chargement génétique et l'accessibilité de la fenêtre thérapeutique Leonardo Mirandola als Mitglied des Beirats berufen um die CAR-T-Zellprojekte des Unternehmens in Richtung klinischer Studien voranzutreiben Mirandola ist ein Biopharma-Wissenschaftler mit über einem Jahrzehnt Erfahrung in Onkologie und Zelltherapie Zuvor war er CSO und Interim-COO bei Kiromic Biopharma darunter eine von der FDA als Fast-Track eingestufte allogene Gamma-Delta-T-Zelltherapie für Lungenkrebs im Stadium 4 (nicht-kleinzellig) SOHM nutzt seine proprietäre Gen-Editing-Plattform ABBIE um die Kommerzialisierung der CAR-T-Zelltherapie zu verbessern ABBIE bietet Vorteile gegenüber herkömmlichen viralen oder CRISPR-basierten Systemen geringere Herstellungskomplexität und weniger regulatorische Hürden genetische Ladungsgenauigkeit und den therapeutischen Zugang zu optimieren CHINO HILLS, CA / ACCESS Newswire / May 2 a leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology company specializing in generic drugs and gene-editing tools Leonardo Mirandola joined the Company as Advisory Board Member will spearhead the company's initiatives to advance its CAR-T cell projects toward clinical trials Mirandola brings a wealth of expertise in operational management with a proven track record in transforming innovative scientific breakthroughs into viable treatment options and a Master's degree from the University of Milano Mirandola's extensive background in cell therapy and his remarkable success in clinical translation make him an invaluable addition to our team," said David Aguilar of SOHM Inc "His leadership will be instrumental as we push the boundaries of CAR-T cell production and therapy and strive to bring new treatment options to those battling cancer." Mirandola served as Chief Scientific Officer and Interim Chief Operations Officer at Kiromic Biopharma where he played a pivotal role in developing and overseeing clinical operations for various groundbreaking therapies His contributions led to the advancement of an autologous dendritic cell therapeutic vaccine for solid tumors and an allogeneic gamma-delta T-cell therapy which has received Fast-Track-designation by the FDA and showed positive results in Phase 1 trials for patients with Stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer Mirandola has a remarkable record of securing patents for novel manufacturing techniques and AI-driven target discovery processes which have significantly advanced the understanding and development of cell therapies His leadership in establishing cGMP-compliant manufacturing processes will be critical as SOHM Inc prepares its CAR-T cell projects for rigorous clinical evaluation and collaborate with such a talented team dedicated to making a difference in the lives of cancer patients," said Dr to accelerate and enhance the commercialization of CAR-T cell therapies Unlike traditional viral-based or CRISPR systems ABBIE offers a cost-efficient editing approach that significantly reduces manufacturing complexity and regulatory hurdles By integrating ABBIE into its CAR-T development pipeline SOHM aims to streamline production timelines and broaden the therapeutic window - ultimately making advanced cell therapies more accessible and scalable for a wider range of cancer patients For further information on SOHM Inc. and its latest advancements in biotechnology, please visit www.sohm.com (http://www.sohm.com) SOHM is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing and commercializing gene editing technologies for research SOHM aims to revolutionize the treatment of genetic diseases by providing safe Through strategic collaborations and groundbreaking research SOHM is at the forefront of advancing the field of gene therapy SOHM strives to transform the landscape of genome editing and improve the quality of life through scientific discovery For further information regarding this announcement or to explore potential collaborations SOHM, Inc.:Name: Baron Night, CEO/Dr. David Aguilar, COOEmail: info@sohm.comPhone: (714) 522-6700 This news release contains "forward-looking statements," which are statements that are not purely historical and include any statements regarding beliefs expectations or intentions regarding the future costs and results of new business opportunities Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors the inherent uncertainties associated with new projects and development-stage companies These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and we assume no obligation to update the forward-looking statements or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements expectations and intentions contained in this press release are reasonable there can be no assurance that any such beliefs expectations or intentions will prove to be accurate Investors should consult all of the information set forth herein and should also refer to the risk factors disclosure outlined in our annual report for the most recent fiscal year and our quarterly reports uploaded from time to time on OTCMarkets.com Already have an account? 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Wilson-Lee skilfully conveys the propulsive, addictive thrill when interpretation is taken for revelationAt the age of 23, Pico published his 900 Theses, a collection of propositions drawn from the eclectic breadth of his reading, which aimed to present a sort of Grand Unified Theory of mystical learning. It also contained a challenge: that should anyone wish to debate him on any part of the work, Pico would be waiting in Rome. He would even pay his challengers’ travel expenses. The authorities were not impressed. Pope Innocent VIII intervened to cancel the debate, and a committee, convened to consider the 900 Theses, promptly found it heretical. When Pico responded by publishing a scornful takedown of his critics, he found himself on the run with the dubious honour of being the author of the first printed book ever to be banned by the church. After a spell in prison, he was released following the intercession of his protector, Lorenzo de’ Medici. The last few years of his short life were spent quietly in Florence, but when Lorenzo died and the city fell under the spell of the extremist preacher Savonarola, he found himself in danger once again. He was 31 when he died, a victim of arsenic poisoning, on the day the French army entered Florence. Pico poses a tougher challenge for Wilson-Lee than the subject of his previous biography, the adventurer-poet Luís de Camões. It is not that his life is not remarkable, but rather that the things that make it so are difficult for us to perceive in a secular age, necessitating the telling of an intellectual backstory that Camões’s swashbuckling never did. How to express, now that magic has fled from the world, the awe that Pico felt in what he thought he was discovering? Wilson-Lee is good at carnivalesque historical colour, on the lonely giraffe brought to Florence as a gift from the Egyptian Sultan, or the riotous pre-Lenten celebrations in Ferrara. And he skilfully conveys the propulsive, addictive thrill when interpretation is taken for revelation, or Pico’s “endless quest for the next lost thing” (words Freud would certainly have understood). Free weekly newsletterDiscover new books and learn more about your favourite authors with our expert reviews, interviews and news stories. Literary delights delivered direct to you Read moreAt times The Grammar of Angels can feel as though it is under the spell of this same impulse to collect and connect Wilson-Lee pulls in analogies from times or cultures that even Pico was not familiar with suggesting affinities in a kind of comparative sociology of incantation In another work this might be more of a problem; in the shadow of an accretive it makes perfect sense for this impressive and scholarly book to see its subject everywhere it looks The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language by Edward Wilson-Lee is published by William Collins (£25). To support the Guardian and the Observer buy a copy at guardianbookshop.com This article was amended on 23 January and 2 February 2025 Earlier versions of the main image incorrectly portrayed Lodovico Pico della Mirandola rather than the intended Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Como Women have unveiled their new senior leadership team following the club’s takeover by Mercury/13 Elena Mirandola has been named chief executive of the Serie A Femminile side which has also appointed Mauro Ferrara as chief operating officer Armed with an extensive background in digital media Mirandola most recently served as managing director of digital consultancy Alkemy for three years She also supported blue-chip brands like Emirates and Nike during more than six years at digital marketing agency Artefact which she left in 2020 to take up a role as director of business development for Expedia Group in the Asia Pacific region Mirandola is a member of European Women On Board (EWOB) an organisation which aims to increase gender diversity in C-suite and board level roles across Europe has previously worked in operational roles for both Inter and AC Milan and most recently served as head of general service for broadcast and media production firm EMG The appointments come after Como Women were acquired in March by Mercury/13 which is aiming to build a multi-club portfolio of women’s soccer teams “I was inspired by Mercury/13’s vision for women’s football,” Mirandola said “I am excited to combine my commercial and marketing experience with my passion for sports “Our goal is to establish FC Como Women as a profitable and high-level company while also creating significant social impact by demonstrating that a women’s team can thrive independently leveraging innovative strategies and data-driven decisions “My goal is to contribute to the growth of women’s sports and empower future generations.” Elsewhere, the Professional Squash Association (PSA) announced Melissa Soobratty as head of marketing and media. 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Log in here MIRANDOLA STADIUM: Antonaci 5, Sitti, Maletti 10, Scaglioni 8, Albergati 15, Reyes 5, Catellani (L1), Brodolo, Flemma 6, Zanetti, Rustichelli R., ne Bevilacqua, Rustichelli M. (L2); coach: Bicego. HOKKAIDO VOLLEYBALL BOLOGNA: Tassoni 1, Dalfiume 14, Bandieri 3, Ricci Maccarini 11, Bernardis 3, Tito 2, Chiella (L), Ronchi 4, Reccavallo 2, Serenari, Falzone, ne Popov; coach: Guarnieri. Notes: Set duration 26' 24' 25' for a total of 75'. Stadium 49 out of 75 (BS 12, Vinc. 4, Muri 8, EP 3), Bologna 40 out of 55 (BS 9, Vinc, 2, Muro 6, EP 7). NATIONAL GOLDEN VILLA: Andreoli 25, Dombrovski 13, Canossa 8, Ghelfi, Mocelli 11, Maggi 2, Plessi (L1), Ferrari 8, Martinelli 3, Leonelli (L2), Benincasa 3, Akrabia, ne Rossi; coach: Mescoli. KEMA REDEMELLO SOLE: Fellini 5, Leali 10, Marasi 4, Maggi 10, Mattinzoli 6, Peslan 5, Brunello (L1), Bacchin 5, Gallina, Rodella 3, Pellegrino 1, Zaniboni, ne Chiari, Pignatelli (L2); coach: Fasani. Note: Set duration 26' 24' 27' 22' for a total of 99'. National 73 out of 97 (BS 14, Winner 9, Blocks 10, EP 3), Asola 49 out of 76 (BS 9, Winner 4, Block 7, EP 15). TIRABASSI & VEZZALI COUNTRYSIDE: Pinarello 2, Maghenzani 4, Muzi 6, Coveccia 6, Rossi 5, Bici (L1), Pratissoli 2, Bonato M. (L2), Mantovani, Magnani 1, ne Ndiaye, Bonato L., Caramaschi; coach: Longagnani. MODENA VOLLEYBALL: Bozzoli 15, Fronza 2, Nonnati 12, Garofalo 13, Gerosa 9, Lancellotti 1, Righi (L1), ne Mattioli, Davoli, Cornelli, Pagot, Benetti, Zironi (L2); coach: Molinari. REFEREES: Mischi – Rizzardo Chiara. Note: Set duration 21' 30' 18' for a total of 69'. Campagnola 27 out of 44 (BS 8, Win 4, Blocks 6, EP 15), Modena 52 out of 75 (BS 8, Win, 6, Block 10, EP 9). 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SubscriptionOffers Give a Gift Subscribe The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language by Edward Wilson-Lee finds in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola a case for the Rennaissance as a triumph not of individuality From Giorgio Vasari’s The Lives of the Artists (1550) to Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) the Italian Renaissance has been viewed as the age of the lone genius and the eccentric goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini the philosophical prodigy Giovanni Pico della Mirandola had proven a pre-eminent example of the type Pico displayed a precocious talent for learning As a child he could reportedly recite Dante’s Commedia both forwards and backwards He enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Florence where he caught the attention of luminaries including Marsilio Ficino and Angelo Poliziano he arrived in Rome with a list of 900 theses which he offered to defend against all challengers Some of Pico’s theses proved too much for the papal authorities but could not help but get caught up in the political upheavals that followed Lorenzo’s death in 1492 Pico helped bring the controversial Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola to Florence before dying from a sudden and mysterious illness In Edward Wilson-Lee’s telling of this rambunctious life story But a poster boy for individualism he is not Quite the opposite: Pico’s philosophical enquiries were underpinned by a deep uncertainty about individual identity and the difficulty of proving the separateness of one human from the greater whole of humanity seeking to bring together all philosophical knowledge into one universal whole Drawing on a wide array of sources – including Plato and the Jewish kabbalist tradition – Pico reopened the radical question of whether humans really were particular or whether (in Wilson-Lee’s helpful recurring image) we are like the crest of a wave which though appearing individual in fact form small parts of a greater oceanic whole Pico offers proof that the Renaissance could be about transcending individuality Wilson-Lee stresses the influence of Paris Pico’s debt to medieval scholasticism challenges outdated assumptions about the Renaissance in which humanists rejected and displaced scholastics Still too often written off as pedantic quibbling about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin Pico’s writings instead reveal a scholasticism that was intellectually adventurous angels were a crucial thought experiment which lay at the core of scholastic (and Pico’s) thought what makes humans distinctive is the fact that they need to live alongside others: as he put it at the start of his Politics Herein lay the crucial difference from instinct-driven animals (humans could cooperate through speech and reason) and the perfect reason of gods (who had no need of others) For the scholastic theologian Thomas Aquinas working to make Aristotle consistent with Christianity gods (in the pagan plural) were replaced by angels A step up from humans in the divine hierarchy sinful bodies and represented a purer form of reason This was a framework which suggested a tantalising possibility: could humans – through a higher philosophical understanding – become angels Throughout this lively and stylish intellectual biography Wilson-Lee traces Pico’s investigation of this question the reader is thrown into multifarious philosophical contexts and traditions Taking inspiration from anthropology as much as history Wilson-Lee draws comparisons between very different times and places we are taken on a whistlestop tour of culturally varied interest in the language of birds This sets Pico’s interest in the language of angels – ‘bird men’ – in broader context Pico was entranced by forms of language that go beyond meaning and reason which pointed towards a universal experience Pico’s obsession with the power of language explains his fascination with the enigmatic Savonarola who urged his Florentine listeners to give up vanities and live purer spiritual lives The friar’s accusatory yet beguiling preaching style had a mesmeric effect: it is said that the artist Botticelli was convinced to burn his own paintings Pico died at the Dominican monastery of San Marco in 1494 and therefore did not live to see Savonarola’s fall Florence’s moment of mass religious hysteria had passed and so too had Pico’s quest for universal understanding Pico’s embrace of human oneness provides a valuable counterpoint to a modern Western world in which individualism has become an unthinking norm over the span of history it has been far more common for humans to put collective identities first The thrill of losing oneself in a communal whole has a dark history lying at the heart of 20th-century fascism But the historical narrative outlined in The Grammar of Angels challenges us to ask if we have now gone too far in the other direction Do we lack philosophical tools for tackling genuinely communal challenges such as the Covid pandemic or climate change by becoming more attuned to this very human instinct ‘to dissolve the individuals in larger groups and structures’ we might learn to be more discerning about the communities we choose to form but we can shape our collective destiny.  The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of LanguageEdward Wilson-LeeWilliam Collins Eloise Davies is Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida The great artists of the Italian Renaissance — Michelangelo Botticelli — are world-ranking celebrities these days that the great thinkers they lived alongside are so obscure Take the philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola He was the darling of late-15th-century Europe so famous for his learning and eloquence — and beauty — that after his death “many made it their proudest boast to have seen him once perform” Edward Wilson-Lee is a fellow at Sidney Sussex College He has written dazzling books on Columbus’s son and 16th-century Portuguese adventurers You might call this an intellectual biography: a study of a “lightning bolt of a life” and everything it illuminated Edward Wilson-Lee writes rather chin-strokey erudite books for the half-educated general reader with a strong taste for big ideas and the ever-so-slightly weird –which is to say people exactly like me and very possibly like you The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library (2018); A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder an Epic and Two Visions of Global History (2022): autodidact catnip Be part of the conversation with other Spectator readers by getting your first three months for £3 Already a subscriber? Log in MIRANDOLA STADIUM: Antonaci 3, Sitti, Maletti 10, Scaglioni 9, Albergati 16, Reyes 5, Catellani (L1); Matteo Rustichelli (L7), Bevilacqua, Egwaoje. Coach Bicego. HOKKAIDO BOLOGNA: Tassoni 1, Ricci Maccarini 10, Dalfiume 15, Bernardis 3, Tito 2, Bandieri 3, Chiella (L1); Serenari, Ronchi 4, Falzone, Reccavallo 3. Did not enter: Popov. Coach Guarnieri. Referees: Rutigliano and Pinto.MIRANDOLA (Modena) End of the line: the hopes of playoff of Hokkaido crashed in Mirandola on the penultimate day, on the field of the league leaders. The feat would have been of little value, considering the simultaneous victory of Villadoro, who beat Remedello, took the second arithmetic place and punched the pass for the playoffs. More than the regrets, the merits and a season lived above the initial expectations weigh: because Bologna had started to save itself and with the second youngest team in group C of the championship men's series B di volley and played for second place until the penultimate day. More than the defeats with Villadoro and Mirandola in this return round, the points lost with Cremonese and Benacus, between the first and second legs, weigh on the exclusion. But the season still marks a refoundation based on young talents and of the territory, many of whom will continue the race to the national finals Under 17 and 19. The race in Serie B therefore ends only, in Mirandola, in a one-way match, against an opponent built for promotion who has lost only one match so far. At Hokkaido they are looking to the future, it is already time to plan the next championship of series B: trying to confirm the structure of the roster, and trying to understand the intentions of coach Francesco Guarnieri, who however has requests to the highest levels. The first verdict this week, but there seems to be an air of farewell on the bench. The other matches: Transports Villadoro-Kema Asola Remedello 3-1, Zotup Scanzorosciate-Cremonese 3-0, Canottieri Ongina-Univolley Carpi 3-1, Arredopark Dual Caselle-Radici Products Cazzago 3-0, Imecon Crema-Modena Volley 3-0, Volley Veneto Benacus-Mgr Grassobbio 2-3. Rest day: Ferramenta Astori Montichiari. The ranking: Mirandola 75; Transports Villadoro 65; Hokkaido Bologna 59; Zotup Scanzorosciate 55; Arredopark Dual Caselle 53; Volley Veneto Benacus 46: Modena Volley, Canottieri Ongina 36; Ferramenta Astori Montichiari 35; Radici Products Cazzago 34; Cremonese 31; Kema Asola Remedello 30; Imecon Crema 21; Univolley Carpi 17; Mgr Grassobbio 16. Pic de La Mirandole: Études et DiscussionsHenri de LubacÉditions du Cerfpp Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and His “Oration” in Modern MemoryBrian P Giovanni Pico della Mirandola became a legend in his lifetime: even if it is not true that he mastered twenty-two languages by the age of eighteen Pico remains regarded as one of the most pivotal philosophers of the Renaissance despite the fact that he wrote relatively little and died under mysterious circumstances at the age of thirty-one Yet his fame endured; around World War II he gained a new reputation as a fearless pioneer of “humanism,” in the twentieth-century sense of a philosophy that does not rely on God to guarantee the innate dignity of mankind reliable editions of Pico’s work were surprisingly difficult to find at least for casual readers in the English-speaking world whose I Tatti Renaissance Library has made attractive high-quality editions of important neo-Latin texts available to a wider audience since 2001 has recently published Pico’s most famous single work along with an influential biography that was put together by his nephew Gianfrancesco as a preface to the 1496 edition of Pico’s collected Latin writings Some of us have been waiting for Harvard to publish this for twenty years; for most others a little background may be necessary to understand just how important this publication really is If you have ever seriously tried to study any aspect of the Renaissance or even demoralized by your introductory texts they seem to assume that you already know everything or at least have enough knowledge of Greek and Roman art and fifteenth-century painting and architecture to be able to form an opinion on these things But it rarely feels like one to the anxious beginner My own initiation into these studies was Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance by Edgar Wind who was one of the pioneering interdisciplinary researchers of the Warburg Institute and served as Oxford’s first-ever professor of art history Wind was not trying to scare away readers with his learning: he was trying to flatter and seduce them by affecting to believe that they surely did not need to be told the basics of their subject and were already worthy of joining in an advanced discussion Really he was covertly provoking his listeners to go off to the library and study and make themselves worthy of his lectures; he was so charming that he often succeeded in this Wind treats Pico with such archly skeptical irony that you come to suspect him of using Pico as a stand-in for a professorial colleague particularly when he discusses Pico’s provocative eccentric prose style; his cultivation of mystery and obscurity as a source of authority; and the vicarious quasi-poetic thrill he seems to get from reading occult authors thought it frivolous and illogical to discuss mysteries in plain language: an air of secrecy contributed to the respect that they inspired Might this be a cunning character sketch in disguise Pagan Mysteries reveals something about the sort of scholar who might have dreamt of following in Pico’s footsteps and dabbling in astrology and other such curiosities out of more than idle curiosity Wind’s erstwhile colleague at the Warburg Institute continues to be celebrated for her engrossing profoundly imaginative historical studies such as Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition which has influenced perceptions of Pico for over half a century despite the fact that he is not really the central figure in this volume Yates emphasizes Pico’s peculiar brand of erudite syncretism which combined elements of late-antique commentary techniques; medieval scholasticism; a symbolic approach to Greco-Roman myth; a highly idiosyncratic reading of the Bible; and the Jewish mystical tradition known as the Cabala He does not really sound like a Christian figure that magic and Cabala provided the best proofs of Christ’s divinity: he wanted people to use magic and Cabala to transform themselves into angels His views developed into something closer to recognizable orthodoxy; he ended his life as a disciple of Girolamo Savonarola the controversial Dominican friar who called for a reform of the Church led an austere political-religious movement is sometimes thought of as a sort of proto-Protestant and remains best remembered for the “Bonfire of the Vanities.” Savonarola and his followers celebrated Shrove Tuesday in 1497 by gathering thousands of lewd books and other such inducements to vice and sin (or distractions from worship and devotion) and burned them in the main square in Florence where he was burned at the stake the following year after being excommunicated and convicted of heresy Evidently Pico lived in a very different world The best introductions to his intellectual background are Nigel Wilson’s three books Scribes and Scholars Wilson’s elegantly readable studies should be supplemented by the essays in Jill Kraye’s Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism and in the Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy These are not dry handbooks: Kraye and Hankins have taken care to maintain high literary standards unless you are in the habit of sitting up in bed taking thorough notes We tend to think of the Italian Renaissance in terms of art and architecture: this is what first attracts us to the subject The Renaissance began as a literary and intellectual movement; to understand how it began you should look at the peculiar qualities of medieval Latin Latin never disappeared or fell into disuse; but by the time of the Emperor Charlemagne it was a “dead language,” in the sense that nobody grew up speaking it at home Of course it was still alive in the liturgy as well as a means of communication between learned men There is even an extensive literature: not just hymns You can explore some of these texts in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library whose volumes of Venantius Fortunatus and the Carmina Burana are particularly enjoyable and at least a few hundred lines of Ovid rattling around inside your head It helps to know Saint Augustine’s Confessions and the poetical books of the Bible in Saint Jerome’s translation Between these you have most of the grammar and literary devices that the medieval Latinists had at their disposal along with local variations in dialect and vocabulary and miscommunications that are introduced when people try to communicate in a language that nobody quite speaks perfectly or has learnt in the same way as others There is authentically great literature in medieval Latin of course: the writings within this tradition of Dante and Saint Thomas Aquinas in particular are not merely of scholarly interest But to use medieval Latin effectively you had to be a literary genius as you know if you have tried to read legal or other archival documents or study medieval philosophy and theology beyond Aquinas The Renaissance began as a movement to restore Latin to the full expressive range that was possible in Cicero’s lifetime The Renaissance was not merely about language or rhetoric of course: the recovery of ancient knowledge in general was important and the great poet Petrarch was renowned not merely for his poetry or command of Latin but for his unflagging devotion to rediscovering old manuscripts and putting them back into general circulation scholars increasingly began paying attention to classical Greek which almost nobody in Western Europe had been able to read since the fall of Rome scores of Byzantine scholars entered Italy as refugees To them more than anyone else we owe the survival of ancient Greek literature Renaissance architecture began with Roman ruins: architects studied what remained of ancient buildings in the hope not of reconstructing them but of surpassing their example just as Christian civilization surpassed classical culture Renaissance painting was a restorationist project—or even a reactionary one The only real evidence that remained for what Greek and Roman paintings might have looked like were descriptions of pictures in Pliny’s Natural History and other such Latin texts Of course there were Roman sculptures as well and those magnificent sarcophagi that were produced throughout the empire from the mid-second to the late third century A.D Renaissance artists copied all of these as part of their gloriously insane dream of recreating the lost paintings of antiquity whose Calumny of Apelles brings to life an ancient description of a long-lost painting by Apelles who is thought to have painted Alexander the Great It might be a mistake to think too much about art where Pico della Mirandola was concerned The alleged depiction of Pico in the Uffizi Gallery by Cristofano dell’Altissimo is a late-sixteenth-century copy of a lost original that was painted around half a century after Pico’s death and angelic-looking; the Uffizi “portrait” is of a greasy-haired middle-aged man with a penchant for junk food The only full-length biography of Pico in English to date is a series of articles in Philosophia Reformata by the Calvinist-leaning New Testament scholar Philip Edgcumbe Hughes whereas there is a succinct yet admirably thorough 1967 monograph on Pico’s nephew and biographer by Charles Schmitt who studied chemical engineering in Louisville before deciding to devote his life to the study of Aristotelianism in the Italian Renaissance Schmitt’s Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (1469–1533) and His Critique of Aristotle is one of the finest intellectual biographies in existence of any Renaissance intellectual And if only someone would write an English-language book on Pico of at least this quality the sixth and youngest child of a minor warlord His mother thought he was too intelligent and delicate to become a warrior and decided he should train to become a priest while he was studying canon law at Bologna he became less and less interested in joining the clergy and more attracted to the life of the mind for its own sake Then he studied Aristotelian philosophy at Padua for two years or so thin-skinned genius who was the greatest poet of the era as well as one of the most brilliant classical philologists of all time Politian was close to Lorenzo the Magnificent whose court was the center of the Renaissance throughout the 1470s and 1480s Pico became one of the wealthiest men in Italy; unlike Lorenzo he had no ambition to glorify his name or his city as a patron of the arts; he was more interested in buying manuscripts and acquiring knowledge of ancient languages Pico turned out to be less shrewd at collecting courtiers than Lorenzo was For a time his entourage included the colorful savant Flavius Mithridates introduced Pico to the mysteries of the Cabala and had no scruples about making extensive editorial additions to texts that he was supposed to be translating into Latin we know more about his life than is strictly necessary But there was nobody who could teach him to do what he really wanted to do which was to achieve a grand synthesis between all schools of thought that would reconcile Plato and Aristotle and essentially everything he had so far read with everything else he wanted to read studying at the Sorbonne and learning the French manner of philosophical dispute while he meditated on how best to attain this intellectual harmony He decided to invite philosophers from all over the known world to come to Rome at his expense and debate him on his political There would eventually be nine hundred of these where he and twenty armed men tried to carry off his mistress a rich young widow who was married to one of Lorenzo the Magnificent’s cousins The abduction did not succeed: In the resulting mêlée and he and his secretary were imprisoned by authorities He soon had enough Hebrew to write a letter and enough Arabic to read the Koran Of course he was embarrassed about the scandal; his mistress thought she was pregnant Pico read a page of the Gospels a day (whether in Greek or Latin is not securely known) Pico’s spiritual life is in general something of a mystery; for all his intellectual interest in theology he does not seem to have been particularly contrite about having been responsible for the deaths of eighteen followers His surviving letters concentrate almost exclusively on “higher things.” he was compelled to spend more time indoors on account of an outbreak of plague He made it to Rome in December and had his Nine Hundred Theses printed to make them available to anyone and everyone who wished to debate him edited by Stephen Alan Farmer) was first published in 1998 and has been available since 2016 in a paperback reprint from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Tempe This is the first printed book to have been universally banned by the Church Pico’s stated aims were to persuade Christians to become Cabalists and convince philosophers that their path to salvation and saving wisdom was through concord and harmony He aimed to prove this through a series of adversarial debates he wanted to force everyone within earshot to accept that the methods and practice of Cabala inevitably led towards the Holy Trinity and sophisticated; it takes great intelligence to write something this colossally incoherent Farmer’s edition of the Nine Hundred Theses rewards close study on this account as a cautionary tale for twenty-three-year-olds who have come to believe in their own originality The debates Pico wanted might have been memorable indeed the pope issued a bull condemning thirteen of these theses and ordered all copies of the printed book to be burned within three days with excommunication for anyone presuming to read This was the first such condemnation issued by the Holy See Pico’s Nine Hundred Theses are much less well known than the text that introduces them the so-called Oration on the Dignity of Man which Pico himself appears to have referred to as the Oratio ad laudes philosophiae (Oration in Praise of Philosophy) Twentieth-century intellectual historians have claimed this text as the “manifesto of the Renaissance” or a humanist “Charter of Dignity” on account of Pico’s claim that man is the greatest of all wonders because we can choose to transform ourselves Pico tells us; twentieth-century writers cheered so loudly at this that they were unable to hear the full statement: we can choose to be what we want to be involves learning how to live the angelic life or specifically the cherubic life of studied contemplation which they can learn to live through reading a curriculum of study based on various texts that Pico had been looking at over the past little while Some of his statements are simply heretical: not only does he put words into God’s mouth he makes God tell Adam not that man is made in God’s image But there is so much of this sort of thing throughout the Oration that the eyes glaze over There is no real need to take it seriously It remained little read for around four and a half centuries which was published in May 1487 as a defense of the thirteen theses that were condemned by the pope The Apologia too was swiftly condemned; in June Innocent VIII summoned Pico to appear before the Inquisition He was not personally condemned; instead he was asked to grant permission for all copies of the Apologia to be burned Eventually Pico returned to Florence; the last five years of his life proved highly productive A few of his letters are translated in the I Tatti Renaissance Library volume of Politian’s letters (2006; edited by Shane Butler who still has three further volumes of this correspondence to finish editing and translating) there is an attractive 2018 critical edition of Pico’s correspondence (edited by Francesco Borghesi); unfortunately it only includes Pico’s side of exchanges which makes Pico’s personality harder to discern Pico’s letters were treated as a model for neo-Latin correspondence Perhaps he lacks the polish and literary flamboyance of his friend Politian Yet his gentler example is easier to follow Perhaps his best-known letters will be found in Eugenio Garin’s wonderful 1952 anthology Prosatori latini del quattrocento (Latin Prose Writers of the Fourteen-Hundreds) which includes his exchange on style with Ermolao Barbaro who managed to accomplish important philological work in his spare time whilst serving variously as a diplomat Barbaro wrote Pico a friendly letter in which he interrupted himself by complaining about the unreadable Latin of certain philosophers whose work he had been reading Pico’s reply is a master class in good manners as well as stylish rhetoric: he asserts that wisdom is the pursuit of philosophers and on these grounds he excuses those whose style seems uncouth by the standards of polite humanists Nobody will be blown away by the contents of this exchange but the sheer artistry of Pico’s style is enough to make you want to read more of his work Francesco Borghesi’s edition of the correspondence begins with a letter dated May 15 1492: Pico sent this to his nephew and biographer who also edited the first collection of Pico’s writings and was careful to put this letter first in the collection Evidently Pico abandoned his project of seeking philosophical concord on a grand scale: here he implies that Reason can be identified with God and the Natural Law and asserts that the path to Heaven must be sought not in philosophy or theology but almsgiving and prayer At the end he exhorts his nephew to read Scripture and waste no time on frivolous poetry In the eyes of twentieth-century academics Pico and his nephew grew close to Savonarola; after Pico died Savonarola gave a rather harsh eulogy in which he urged the congregation to pray for Pico’s soul The end of Pico’s life was not a happy one: his best friend Politian predeceased him by eight weeks; they were buried together in a tomb at the Church of San Marco in Florence and by February 2008 it was confirmed: both men had been murdered by arsenic poisoning Pico’s secretary killed them on the orders of Piero de’ Medici Pico’s nephew Gianfrancesco was a philosopher in his own right to compose anti-Aristotelian treatises and a biography of Savonarola before he was murdered in his castle in October 1533 by his own nephew Galeotto II Pico della Mirandola who was an ancestor of François VI de La Rochefoucauld and author of an immortal volume of maxims Charles Schmitt has convincingly demonstrated the intellectual value of Gianfrancesco’s work even if he exaggerates its importance somewhat Gianfrancesco is often clumsy and impatient but the ideas he attempts to develop are sometimes worth pursuing Modern scholars tend to be hostile to Gianfrancesco for allegedly distorting his uncle’s work and life He seems easy to scoff at; and of course his uncle was an authentic genius But how much did that genius really achieve despite his prodigious gifts and awesome potential Gianfrancesco’s biography ensured that Pico was not forgotten Saint Thomas More translated it freely into English in 1504 who was about to enter the Poor Clares at Aldgate There are a few tactful deletions and alterations; even so for readers without Latin this translation might provide some idea of how artfully convoluted Gianfrancesco’s style can be More’s translation had an unusual afterlife: it became the basis for an 1871 essay on Pico that is one of the landmarks of English poetic prose who seems fated to be remembered mainly as Oscar Wilde’s tutor at Oxford was not a genuinely great writer; all the same his Studies in the History of the Renaissance has an undeniable beauty Its weakness might be that it has too much Pater’s aesthetic ideals tended towards the ethereal and androgynous; his vision of the Renaissance seems suspiciously like the art of his contemporaries in the Aesthetic Movement who were the successors to the Pre-Raphaelites His Pico essay is a lovely prose poem that tells the reader next to nothing about Pico himself; at least it inspires a sort of pleasant dream Pater’s vision is arguably preferable to the more philistine one that came to dominate discussions of Pico and his work in the twentieth century Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and History at U.C.L.A. demonstrates how unfortunate the attempts to rehabilitate Pico’s Oration have been over the past eight or nine decades: Magic and the Dignity of Man: Pico della Mirandola and his “Oration” in Modern Memory is an important exercise in modern intellectual history that no student of the Renaissance can afford to ignore Perhaps nobody is more to blame for reviving Pico’s Oration than Jacob Burckhardt the pioneering historian who almost single-handedly created the field of Renaissance studies with his glorious Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Burckhardt was a titan; let nobody question his achievements as a historian even a man of his grand stature could slip up every now and again; he approvingly quoted a section from the Oration in his account of the revival of classical antiquity Burckhardt took a dim view of Catholicism even before he lost his faith or came to embrace many of Schopenhauer’s ideas historiographical precedent in terms of presenting the Renaissance as a process of liberating civilization from encumbrances and superstitions such as the Christian faith and the Roman Church Pico was taken up by neo-Kantian philosophers Ernst Cassirer helped revive the study of Renaissance philosophy generally with his short book The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy which was not translated into English until 1963 to publish a short book on Pico that has decisively shaped perceptions of Pico ever since He also published the first critical edition of the Oration in 1942 Garin’s vision helped shape Cassirer’s two-part examination of Pico in The Journal of the History of Ideas: this is perhaps the first serious examination in English of Pico as a philosopher if we discount the essay by Avery Cardinal Dulles that won him the Phi Beta Kappa Essay Prize in 1940 Pico’s other neo-Kantian champion of note was Paul Oskar Kristeller who became the dominant historian of Renaissance philosophy of the post-war period The neo-Kantians have popularized the view that Pico’s notions of human dignity and freedom are somehow to be equated with those articulated in the United Nations General Assembly’s 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights Copenhaver has demolished this ludicrously anachronistic position time and time again Having done so decisively in Magic and the Dignity of Man (or so he hopes) Evidently Copenhaver was energized by his apparent victory over the neo-Kantians; in Pico della Mirandola on Trial he tries to finish them off The volume testifies to the quality of a Jesuit education in the era before the Second Vatican Council: if Copenhaver lost his faith long ago he still retains a knack for old-fashioned scholasticism and dialectics He is bracingly clear and blunt in his demonstrations of Pico’s profoundly medieval approach to philosophy Copenhaver’s discussions of scholastic Latin and philosophy are entertaining as well as illuminating and his translations tend to be lively and fun One of the great strengths of this volume is its usefulness as an introduction to some tricky sub-disciplines Yet there are problems with Pico della Mirandola on Trial Copenhaver’s grasp of the intellectual history of the Magisterium He does not rely on trustworthy scholarly sources and has a defective understanding of canon law particularly where the liturgy is concerned Perhaps his Jesuit education was not so impressive after all he does not seem to realize how relatively rare a working knowledge of classical Greek was even at the Vatican in the 1480s Copenhaver’s two recent studies on Pico are indispensable as is his 2022 I Tatti Renaissance Library volume even if Copenhaver does nothing to conceal his hostility to Gianfrancesco The only real faults lie in the translations themselves which are strangely stilted and tone-deaf throughout A Latinist of Copenhaver’s stature ought to be less lazy about vocabulary On the whole it seems clear that he has simply not thought through his translations carefully enough or paused to consider the point of the exercise Most readers will not even look at the Latin pages in this volume They will want English-language texts that sound like they were written in English; so will experienced Latinists not because they need help with vocabulary but because they are interested in shades and nuances of meaning and would prefer to see how an expert of Copenhaver’s distinction interprets Pico’s words All this is particularly disappointing because Copenhaver has elsewhere demonstrated real brilliance as a translator We ask ourselves the same question when we look at Pico’s champions Pic de La Mirandole: Études et Discussions which has just been republished as volume twenty-nine of Lubac’s complete works This is the first book-length study of Pico in French Lubac’s sheer range of reference can prove daunting to the reader who has not yet learned how to approach his oeuvre: the best introduction for laymen is his 1944 study The Drama of Atheist Humanism His friend Hans Urs von Balthasar says in his foreword to the Ignatius Press edition that “despite their historical and scholarly appearance all de Lubac’s work clearly refers to the present.” If you want to understand how Lubac’s famous scholarly practice of ressourcement really functions there is no better place to study it than The Drama of Atheist Humanism Lubac purports to explore the atheism of Ludwig Feuerbach and then offers Dostoyevsky as an admittedly unsatisfactory alternative to Nietzsche All this is supported by extensive footnotes and an impressive-looking bibliography Yet Lubac nowhere bothers to describe or define the positions of Feuerbach convincing criticism: he takes for granted that the reader already agrees with him Occasionally he makes defiant assertions with which nobody really disagrees For example: “we must rediscover the spirit of Christianity.” Elsewhere he claims “Péguy will save us from Nietzsche,” and we wish he would expand on that because this is one of the only provocations in a bloodless At least it reveals the Lubac method of argument which is to avoid all possibility of disagreement while manufacturing the appearance of consensus where nobody has in fact given consent and then to proceed frictionlessly to a foreordained conclusion which nobody has been allowed or enabled to challenge Pic de La Mirandole begins with a cringe-makingly syrupy “avant-propos” in which Lubac reveals his decades-long “friendship” with Pico We hope Lubac’s outpouring of emotion was not sincere: it seems kinder to treat this as an emotionally manipulative tactic to disarm criticism sentimentality is merely externalized self-pity and it would be disturbing to think that Lubac really felt this way about Pico Lubac appears to have mastered most of the relevant scholarship on Pico His section on Voltaire’s disdain for Pico in his Essai sur les moeurs for once demonstrates active rather than passive aggression Except that if you read Voltaire’s discussion he is in fact quite measured and fair in his judgements Lubac appears to be bluffing here: he has not taken the time to think about what Voltaire actually wrote and knows that a French Catholic readership (at least) will not bother to check the reference For all Lubac’s demonstrated mastery of secondary literature to whose work he adds nothing of substance While he has clearly read some of Pico’s work It would be nice if he could demonstrate that Pierre Cardinal de Bérulle had something to do with Pico but he cannot prove that Bérulle read a word of Pico There is a great deal of superfluous material here on Paul Claudel and other twentieth-century writers whose works are completely irrelevant to Pico’s or loveable personality; testimonials to that effect are superfluous and lay intellectuals are more curious to know: why should we bother with Pico By the end of Pic de La Mirandole it becomes apparent that Lubac saw Pico as a kindred spirit—a “genius,” ahead of his time unjustly persecuted by “rigid” authorities in the papal curia who could not understand that “idealism” means never having to say you’re sorry Now we understand what ressourcement really is: a tactic of flooding readers with unfamiliar impressive-looking displays of learning to distract them from scrutinizing what is really being said: if they cannot evaluate the evidence or are overwhelmed by untranslated Latin quotations and scholarly-seeming footnotes then they will be in no position to say anything about your conclusions whether or not they are relevant to the material that you have amassed (and have used as a smokescreen) This tactic proved particularly effective throughout the twentieth century and seminary professors who swore Pope Saint Pius X’s Oath Against Modernism with their fingers crossed behind their backs Marcello del Piazzo published a series of documents in volume twenty-three of the Rassegna degli archivi di stato They contain a full account of the Arezzo incident and Pico’s botched attempt to capture his mistress Lubac might not have been aware of this publication But he clearly knew about the scandal: there is a reasonably full account of it in Giovanni di Napoli’s 1965 study which Lubac explicitly cites in his footnotes Yet he neglects to spell out what it involved offers a few preemptive excuses and “forgiveness,” then moves on We hope he missed the detail of how many people died that night; if not then we begin to wonder just how “saintly” Cardinal de Lubac really was despite his sweetness of manner and aspiration to become like one of the cherubim We should pray for him as he suffers purification Jaspreet Singh Boparai is a Senior Fellow of the Pharos Foundation and a contributing editor at The Lamp.  King, Wallace Collection (April 10–October 20 The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Flaubert Francis Steegmuller, New York Review Books Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man, Gustave Flaubert, trans MacKenzie, University of Minnesota Press Guerre, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Gallimard Londres, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Gallimard suivi de La Légende du Roi René, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Gallimard The Lamp is published by the Three Societies Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Three Rivers, Michigan, in partnership with The Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America Views expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Institute for Human Ecology or The Catholic University of America or of its officers Industry news and insights from Europe and around the World Keep up-to-date with the latest new products and technology chief sales and marketing officer at Glasgow-based controls manufacturer Resource Data Management (RDM) has been given the additional responsibility of CEO of RDM USA Mirandola joined RDM in 2014 as group sales director before being chief sales and marketing officer in 2018 he spent 20 years at Italian controls manufacturer Carel He initially joined the Padova-based company as assistant business unit manager subsequently moved into sales and becoming sales manager at Carel UK in 1998 Cooling Post is the leading online resource covering latest news and developments in the cooling industry air conditioning news and the latest heat pump developments Privacy & Cookie Policy © Copyright 2025, Cooling Post Ltd - All Rights Reserved | Website by Capital Web either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content A mesmerizing video of red auroras in Norway has captivated users on social media The clip begins with a show of both red and green northern lights across a night sky before the red aurora gradually becomes more vivid and dominates the sky A post shared by instagram A caption shared with the post says: "From one of the most magical nights of the last season Mirandola told Newsweek: "The video is timelapse [footage] from December 1, when a big coronal mass ejection arrived from the sun I drove 1,000 km (around 620 miles) from Finland to Norway to be able to see this show." are formed from electrons colliding with the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere Space Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) explains that in these collisions "the electrons transfer their energy to the atmosphere thus exciting the atoms and molecules to higher energy states When they relax back down to lower energy states they release their energy in the form of light..." 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In women's B2 the Zerosystem S.Damaso could celebrate direct promotion at home, beating Cervia at 17.30 pm, while a Hydroplants Soliera only theoretically in the running for the playoffs, must win by three in Filottrano, and hope for the misfortunes of others. the ITRL is an improvement over earlier efforts particularly when it comes to providing a way into the world of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola for those beginning the journey The I Tatti Renaissance Library 93: Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola by Gianfrancesco Pico and Oration by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola who was the director of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies from 2004 to 2011 and who is also responsible for numerous other titles in the series one would reasonably expect a magisterial performance an opus of profound but accessible scholarship that for any able reader with a serious interest would offer an invaluable window into the Renaissance the overall impression left by this volume would best be described as mixed This is an important new edition of a critical piece of humanist literature But the organization of its riches is problematic to the point that first time readers will be frustrated Abundant annotation and plentiful auxiliary material ends up compensating for these flaws but an important opportunity has been missed But it takes roughly 40 pages for Copenhaver to provide a description of what the Jewish Kabbalah was when Copenhaver finally does explore the nature of the Kabbalah he points out that its “exegesis and theosophy were complicated utterly unknown at the time except to a few learned Jews.” But if the material was outside of mainstream awareness so perhaps the intro’s cramped and disorganized structure springs from him attempting to edit down the material in that work to occupy a tenth of its original space this set-up is inadequate when it comes to establishing the significance and proper historical context of what is at the center of the volume — the original Latin compositions The impression that Copenhaver leaves is that these were ideas and images that made people mad when they were first published — but for mysterious reasons As to the translations themselves, they have been reasonably done. For Giovanni’s Oration there are at least two versions currently available: Elizabeth Livermore Forbes’s The Renaissance Philosophy of Man (published in 1956, but still very easy to find used) and Charles Glenn Wallis’s On the Dignity of Man The Copenhaver version stands up well in comparison to both of these What lifts the ITRL edition considerably above the others is that it is the only one that includes a robust collection of annotations and that is a particularly desirable virtue for an author who makes frequent allusions to other works of obscure literature The book also includes a number of illuminating ancillary works particularly when it comes to providing a way into the world of Giovanni for those beginning the journey Given a better introduction and more accessible organization this volume would have been more than an enduring piece of scholarship — it would have had the additional value of helping to spread the word about a pair of Renaissance treasures most readers will need to approach the book with additional reference material at hand Let’s hope that a second edition will come along that has the uninitiated in mind Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" The Lady’s Dressing Room (1732) BY JONATHAN SWIFT Five hours (and who can do it less in?) By haughty Celia… but this Littlefield review has convinced me to make the purchase your comments reek of what is wrong in today's society and also if entitlement About Us Advertising/Underwriting Syndication Media Resources Editors and Contributors © 2025 The Arts Fuse. All Rights Reserved. Site by AuthorBytes. The approach is a little more than bits-and-pieces eclecticism. The technical term is syncretistic: a harmonizing or synthesis. Pico’s boast—“that I may base myself on all teachers of philosophy, examine all writings, recognize every school”—could so easily have resulted in an unappealing Esperanto spirituality. But that’s not what he has in mind. Every school has “something notable that it does not have in common with the others.” The lines that seem to declare a break with the old world and a desire for the new one come in an imagined address to Adam by his maker: “Neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal nor immortal have we made thee. Thou … art the molder and maker of thyself; thou mayest sculpt thyself into whatever shape though dost prefer.” In time, this imperative—at once protean, libertarian, and egoistic—would gird the edifice of Western individualism. It is unlikely, though, that Pico had in mind the modern form of individualism. In his fragmentary speeches, letters, and tracts, he was forging a kind of humanism saturated in spirituality. He was on a mystical, otherworldly ascent, very typical of both the Kabbalah and Plato, his two intellectual passions. “Let us spurn earthly things; let us struggle towards the heavenly,” he writes. This drift of thought sensitized Pico to the fulminations of Girolamo Savonarola, the “mad monk,” and it may have contributed to his death. At the same press conference, Vinceti offered a few more possibilities. Savonarola had other powerful enemies with long arms, among them the Borgia Pope Alexander VI. There is also a suggestion that Pico’s Kabbalistic enthusiasms and his open legitimation of “natural” magic—the mystical and esoteric side of his shtick—opened him up to accusations of witchcraft. Giulio Busi, more soberly, believes that “Pico’s death is destined to remain shrouded in mystery”. In November, 1494, the “mad monk” Savonarola delivered the Count of Mirandola’s funeral address, declaring, “the soul of Pico could not go to heaven at once. It was subject to a time in the flames of purgatory for certain sins.” These he failed to name. Too many automated requests from this network Geetit will take to the field at PalaSavena at 20,30pm and although they are growing rapidly, as demonstrated by their victories over Savigliano, Mirandola and Cagliari, and have scored points in four consecutive matches, they are still in the playout zone. But one step away from direct salvation. The final rush begins, the salvation sprint and the coach chooses a cycling metaphor to describe what awaits his Geetit starting from this penultimate day of the A3 men's volleyball championship: it starts with Belluno, then it will be the turn of the away match in Acqui, before the salvation clash with Garlasco and the away match on the field of the league leaders Mantova. The schedule is complicated, but the rediscovered Geetit can compete with everyone: "Our focus is on Belluno, a tough opponent, but I am convinced that by batting well and with the confidence shown in the last few days we can compete. We must and can score points with everyone". Three are needed to continue the climb and the pursuit of salvation, hoping for a misstep by Brugherio in Cagliari that would allow the rossoblù to climb to the fifth-last place which is worth direct salvation and reabsorb Sarroch in the brawl, since the Sardinians will observe the rest day. Having returned from Cagliari on Sunday evening and observed a day of rest, Geetit had only one training session to prepare for the match: therefore, Listanskis and Aprile are unlikely to start as starters, as they are not at their best due to knee and back problems, but they will be available if called upon. Geetit needs another feat to crown the comeback to safety. The other races: Garlasco-Savigliano, Mantua-Motta di Livenza, Cus Cagliari-Brugherio, Salsomaggiore-Acqui Terme, San Donà di Piave-Mirandola. Rest: Sarroch. The ranking: Mantua 52; San Donà di Piave 44; Belluno 39; Motta di Livenza 37; Sarroch 33; Brugherio 27; Geetit Bologna 26; Garlasco 24; Mirandola 22; Salsomaggiore 18. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. SearchBrowseServicesOpen researchInstitution LoginSearchMenu links - No HTML tags allowed- Web page URLs will display as text only- Lines and paragraphs break automatically- Attachments Your email address will be used in order to notify you when your comment has been reviewed by the moderator and in case the author(s) of the article or the moderator need to contact you directly shared ownership in or any close relationship with any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work This pertains to all the authors of the piece in the little-populated and otherwise tranquil commune of Mirandola Created in the 1960s by visionary pharmacist Mario Veronesi who recognised the market potential of disposable medical products the district has since grown to become the most important biomedical sector in Europe and the third-most important worldwide Among the many initiatives in development there water filtration technologies have long been a focus area the Graphene Flagship spoke with representatives of Medica SpA – one of the industrial partners involved in the Graphene Flagship spearhead project GRAPHIL – to learn more about water filtration Can you please tell us a little about Medica Medica is a research and development company that has been active in the Mirandola Biomedical District since 1985 We exist to innovate and develop new products related to blood purification although we also work on projects related to the design and production of disposable medical devices and electro-medical machines And how about graphene – how does it complement and interact with your work Graphene forms a part of the water filtration technologies we are developing in partnership with Icon Lifesaver and Polymem S.A industrial partners Chalmers University and Manchester University all leaders in the water purification sector as part of the Graphene Flagship Spearhead Project GRAPHIL Medica Water Filters enhanced with graphene How would you explain GRAPHIL to our audiences GRAPHIL is a project aimed at developing and producing innovative filters for household water treatment and portable water purification It was conceived with the goal of ensuring that everyone has clean and safe tap water The innovative water filters that we are developing can be easily connected directly to a household sink or used as a portable water purification device to ensure easy access to safe drinking water at an affordable cost GRAPHIL aims to manufacture a compact filtration system using polymeric hollow fibre membranes blended with graphene Something really exciting about the water filters developed through the GRAPHIL project is that they are effective at reducing emerging contaminants present in the water This is hugely important – including to us as a biomedical company – because clean water is imperative in medical contexts and well as more broadly but many factors have contributed to an increase in the number of contaminants released into the environment every day and many of these contaminants are resistant to conventional purification technologies GRAPHIL water filters have the potential to mitigate this challenge For those curious about the scientific details: how do these water filters work GRAPHIL’s filters combine membrane filtration and absorption mechanisms to remove both microbiological and chemical contaminants Ultrafiltration and microfiltration allow for the removal of bacteria and pathogens while graphene-enabled adsorption targets emerging contaminants like antibiotics Can you tell us whether we should expect to see these water filters on the market The exciting news is that there has been high interest from the market While moving products to market can take years we have already reached our goals in terms of product design and development and are consequently focusing now on establishing manufacturing and production frameworks We expect to have more good news this year and the next Many thanks again to Medica representatives for sharing these insights into the work with us. To learn more about Medica, visit their website here: https://www.medica.it/ Graphene Flagship Press and Communications Co-ordinator (University of Cambridge) Riccardo Forapani grew up surrounded by a love for cooking dreaming of a future in the Ferrari world for him Riccardo was clear about his goal: to become a great culinary professional The opportunity to get closer to his goal of becoming a chef presented itself in 2007 when Riccardo just twenty years old but already talented joined the kitchen of one of the best restaurants in the world Riccardo made his professional debut at "Osteria Francescana," earning a coveted MICHELIN Star where he grew and gained knowledge and experience thanks also to the brigade's travels around Italy and the world Over the years spent at "Osteria Francescana," Riccardo became a cornerstone of the team contributing to the achievement of numerous prestigious awards including the third MICHELIN Star in 2011 and the first place at the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2016 and 2018 Thirteen years after starting his adventure with Bottura the project of the restaurant "Cavallino" began to take shape and while the Iranian-French architect India Mahdavi was in charge of restyling the 1950s premises creating a vibrant chromatic harmony in the historic "Ferrari palette," Massimo Bottura chose who to entrust with the command of the new brigade and Riccardo took the reins of the kitchen The style of the new chef perfectly matches the restaurant's new concept combining the culinary traditions of Emilia with various cultural influences derived from those instructive journeys with the Francescana brigade The restaurant brings together Riccardo's two great passions: cooking and cars which have accompanied him since childhood and now serve as inspiration for some of his most surprising creations The young professional manages to create a unique culinary experience for his guests Riccardo continues to see Massimo Bottura as a reference point and an example to follow the young chef has ambitious plans for the future of "Cavallino." 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la pagna cookies policy A Portuguese-Arabic illustrated practical guide by Norma Simão Adad Mirandola was launched last weekend by Adonis publishing house The book first started as a word list created by Mirandola to help her daughter learn Arabic São Paulo – Publishing house Adonis launched last weekend the Manual prático ilustrado Português/Árabe [Portuguese-Arabic illustrated practical handbook] for Brazilian Portuguese and Arabic speakers to work on conversation in both languages poet and folklorist Norma Simão Adad Mirandola Her childhood amongst Arab immigrant parents and grandparents from Homs served as inspiration to create the handbook “The written material came from a simple request by my daughter She wanted a practical way to better understand and even speak Arabic the language her grandparents spoke at home,” Mirandola is quoted as saying in a statement released by the publishing house she started listing Arabic’s most common words alongside their translations Then the Catalão-born author realized it would be best to display the Portuguese words in alphabetical order as dictionary entries featuring their translations So that’s what I’m sharing with readers now.” the book also refers to elements of the ancient Mediterranean culture and reveal aspects and customs that remain preserved in the Middle East idiomatic phrases and other features contribute for a better understanding of the words in context and open doors for more comprehensive language studies Mirandola holds a degree in Romance Languages and Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC) in Goiás a master’s degree in Languages and Literature from the Federal University of Goiás (UFG) in agreement with the University of São Paulo (USP) and a PhD in Languages and Literature from USP She also holds a specialization in Reading Techniques and Children’s Literature The Arab descendant wrote As tecedeiras de Goiás: estudo linguístico etnográfico e folclórico [The weavers of Goiás: A linguistic ethnographic and folkloric study] Poemas escolhidos [Selected poems] and Frases de para-choques de caminhões: seus saberes [Bumper stickers: Their wisdom] and coauthored Vegetais tintoriais do Brasil Central [Tinctorial plants from Central Brazil] The launch of the handbook took place in the Adonis Comelato Auditorium in Americana Read more:Book by Clarice Lispector reaches Arab readers Professionals will be hired all over the world to fly Boeing and Airbus aircraft A roadshow is set to take place in São Paulo in June The Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA) is the news website of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce Its goal is to promote communication between Brazilians and Arabs killing at least 10 people and bringing down buildings already damaged by a quake that hit the area nine days ago was centred 25 miles (40km) north-west of Bologna close to where a 6-magnitude quake struck in the early hours of 20 May The latest quake struck at 9am when many more local factories were open – a likely reason for the higher death toll At least one employee at a factory in Mirandola was reported dead after the building collapsed one day after it had reopened following the earlier quake In the same town a person was also killed when a house collapsed a priest was killed by a falling beam when his church partially collapsed on him Father Ivo Martini was visiting the church which had been damaged in the earlier quake to see if he could salvage a statue of the Madonna where a number of industrial buildings damaged on 20 May collapsed a woman reportedly died in a furniture factory Two cheesemakers were injured in the area when large wheels of Grana Padano cheese fell on them from shelves Deaths were also reported in San Felice sul Panaro A woman in Rolo was in a serious condition after taking fright during the quake and leaping from her second floor window Rescuers were searching through collapsed structures in Cavezzo Medolla and Mirandola as dozens of aftershocks were registered throughout the area reportedly suffered further damage on Monday The roof of the cathedral in Mirandola collapsed Thousands of locals are living in tents and temporary accommodation in the wake of the first quake asked people in the earthquake zone to "have faith" in rescue services authorities were phoning up to 12,000 elderly residents individually to offer advice as aftershocks continue "The fact that workers are again dying in these new shocks makes me think that factories were not rendered safe before sending people back to work," said Susanna Camusso Experts have said that the area was not considered at risk of seismic activity until new studies were carried out in 2004 a football friendly between Italy and Luxembourg due to be held on Tuesday evening was called off The car manufacturer Ferrari sent employees home from its assembly line in Maranello "to allow them to reach their families" Schools were evacuated across the Emilia Romagna region A hospital was reportedly evacuated in Modena and train services at Bologna were delayed for checks to the lines People in Bologna rushed into the street at the moment of the quake Genoa and in the Veneto and Trentino regions A statue in Venice collapsed as the quake struck Amos Edelheit has just published A Philosopher at the Crossroads Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (Leiden: Brill This study explains how one of the remarkable thinkers of the Italian Renaissance 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 teh period This omission has served to create not only an unreliable portrait of Pico's thougght but also a more general ignorance of the dynamism of scholastic thougght in late fifteenth-century Italy The author argues that these deficiencies of modern scholarship stand in need of correction Maynooth University & Maynooth University logo are registered trademarks of the National University of Ireland Maynooth.Registered charity number 20037130 Mirandola is the largest biomedical district in Europe and third in the world after Minneapolis and Los Angeles in the United States there are few places on the planet as important as the Mirandola Biomedical District North of the Italian city of Modena in the Emilia Romagna region Mirandola is home to a significant cluster of more than 300 related companies it’s the largest biomedical district in Europe and third in the world after Minneapolis and Los Angeles in the United States making it an incredibly important and fertile market for Irish medical device and medical technology (medtech) businesses Italy is also the third largest market for medical equipment in the EU 12 Irish medtech companies visited Mirandola to meet local business leaders as part of an Enterprise Ireland trade delegation aimed at driving further trade and collaboration Ireland is also of strategic importance in this sector as it is one of the top five global medtech hubs Mirandola created €1.6bn in added value for the Italian economy in 2020 Along with holding more than 40 meetings between representatives of 12 Irish and 16 Italian companies the group also made site visits to some of the most important medical device manufacturers in the Emilia-Romagna region Among these visits was a factory tour of Orthofix a US orthopaedics company which has a significant presence in Italy Marking the strategic importance of the trade visit hosted a gala dinner for C-level Irish and Italian medical devices executives while the Irish delegation was in Italy Companies in the cluster specialise in disposable plastic products for medical and healthcare use This looks to break down the boundaries between biomedical and pharma This signposts particular opportunity for Irish firms They design and produce products across a swathe of medicine and healthcare start-up companies that are developing advanced innovative medical technologies for global markets Sales from these businesses account for about €2.1bn of the almost €13bn in annual exports of medical technologies from Ireland the medical devices sector employs more than 40,000 people in Ireland and companies here lead the way on multiple fronts Firms located in Ireland manufacture 80pc of cardiovascular stents used globally 50pc of ventilators used in acute hospital wards and 25pc of injection devices for diabetics Site visits such as those during this week’s trade event in Italy are vitally important for Irish companies to understand the needs of Italian companies and allows them to discover how they might tailor their offerings to enable them to enter or grow within the Italian market.# they typically enjoy long-standing relationships While the sales cycle can be long in this sector it’s worth bearing in mind that medical device companies typically develop stable products that remain on the market for a decade or more stable supply chain to keep products flowing to the market That means once companies are approved as suppliers often getting orders spanning five to 10 years Enterprise Ireland client companies interested in exporting into the Italian medical devices sector should contact the Enterprise Ireland office in Milan which has extensive connections in Mirandola and beyond Whether you need to connect with decision-makers in production or insights around logistics or any other department Enterprise Ireland can offer support and help make the introductions you need Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp channel