Dissertation Research: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Disputationes Adversus Astrologiam Divinatricem: Texts & Contexts

这是一个学位论文研究项目，将允许研究人员花一学年的时间与芝加哥大学的Noel M.Swerdlow教授密切合作，详细分析乔瓦尼·皮科·德拉·米兰多拉(Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola)(1463-94)对占星术的广泛攻击(320页)，他的Adputationes Advs.Asterlogiam Divinatricem(1496)。斯沃德洛教授精通数学、天文学和占星术的高度技术性特征。所采用的方法主要是文献学和史学批评。研究人员将阅读佛罗伦萨文艺复兴的核心人物之一的文本，以便全面、详细地理解皮科对占星术的激烈攻击中的所有论点。此外，他们将在两个最重要的背景下阅读文本：(1)宫廷和大学中占星术的当代(Quattrocento)状态，以及(2)占星术的历史，因为皮科是一位高度熟练的人文学家。这一详细的阅读将构成一项多重背景研究的核心。这样深入研究皮科的争论的潜在意义是，学术界可能因此对这一重要文本及其影响做出适当的判断。由于种种原因，它在哲学史和科学史上一直被认为是重要的，但至今仍没有深入的研究。为了实现这一愿望，论文研究人员将为理解占星术在这一时期科学史上的重要、经常被误解的地位，特别是理解皮科·德拉·米兰多拉在这一过程中的真正意义奠定坚实的基础。

This is a dissertation research project that will allow the researcher to spend the academic year working closely with Professor Noel M. Swerdlow at the University of Chicago to analyze in detail-and to translate into English- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's (1463-94) extensive (320 page) attack on astrology, his Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem (1496). Professor Swerdlow is an expert in the highly technical features of mathematical astronomy and astrology. The methods to be employed are primarily philological and historico-critical. The researchers will read the text by one of the central figures of the Florentine Renaissance in order to come to a fully informed, detailed understanding of the full range of argumentation in Pico's vehement attack on astrology. Furthermore, they will read the text within two of its most important contexts: (1) the contemporary (Quattrocento) state of astrology in both court and university, and (2) the history of astrology as Pico, a highly skilled humanist, would have received it. This detailed reading will form the nucleus of a multifold contextual study. The potential import of such an in-depth study of Pico's Disputationes is that the scholarly community may thus come to a proper judgement of this important text and its influence. It has been judged important in the history of philosophy and science for many reasons, yet there still exists no thorough study thereof. In fulfilling this desideratum, the dissertation researcher will establish a solid foundation both for understanding the important, often misunderstood, place of astrology in the history of science during this period, and, in particular, for understanding the true import of Pico della Mirandola's role in that process.