This is my current read: Edward Wilson-Lee’s The Grammar of Angels.
It follows one of the Renaissance’s most enigmatic minds, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. You may know him for the Oration on the Dignity of Man; he also moved through alchemy, angelology, and bold attempts to reconcile every wisdom tradition he could find.
What’s gripping me about Pico right now: at 23 he announced 900 theses to defend publicly in Rome; the Pope halted the event and condemned several as heretical.
He fled, was arrested in France, and was later rescued by Lorenzo de’ Medici.
He studied Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Kabbalah, trying to braid Plato, Aristotle, Moses, and the magi into one system.
He died at 31, and modern tests have suggested arsenic poisoning, which keeps the mystery alive.
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This is my current read: Edward Wilson-Lee’s The Grammar of Angels.
It follows one of the Renaissance’s most enigmatic minds, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. You may know him for the Oration on the Dignity of Man; he also moved through alchemy, angelology, and bold attempts to reconcile every wisdom tradition he could find.
What’s gripping me about Pico right now: at 23 he announced 900 theses to defend publicly in Rome; the Pope halted the event and condemned several as heretical.
He fled, was arrested in France, and was later rescued by Lorenzo de’ Medici.
He studied Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Kabbalah, trying to braid Plato, Aristotle, Moses, and the magi into one system.
He died at 31, and modern tests have suggested arsenic poisoning, which keeps the mystery alive.
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