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Learned Credulity in Gianfrancesco Pico’s . Strix. walter stephens. Johns Hopkins University. In 1522–23, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola was involved in trials that executed ten accused . witches. Soon after the trials, he published . Strix, sive de ludificatione daemonum, a meticulous defence of witch-hunting.
Gianfrancesco I Pico (1415 – 8 November 1467) was an Italian condottiero and nobleman, the father to philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. He was the son of Giovanni I Pico, lord of Mirandola in what is now Emilia Romagna, and Caterina Bevilacqua, a Veronese noblewoman. When his father died in 1450, Gianfrancesco succeeded him in Mirandola and, in the same year, he fought alongside ...
Abstract. The precise date of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s birth is unknown, but the year must have been 1469. 1 He was the son of Galeotto I Pico, brother of the famous Giovanni, and of Bianca Maria d’Este, the illegitimate daughter of Niccolò III d’Este. 2 Of Gianfrancesco’s early years we know practically nothing, but it is ...
Giovanni Francesco I Pico, meglio noto come Gianfrancesco I Pico ( Mirandola, circa 1420 – Mirandola, 11 febbraio 1467 ), fu un nobile e condottiero italiano, signore di Mirandola e conte di Concordia dal 1451 alla morte. [1]
Mar 28, 2018 · Biography. Born in 1469, son of Galeotto I Pico (1442–1499) and Bianca Maria d’Este (1440–1506), Gianfrancesco, future lord of Concordia, was just six-years younger than his uncle Giovanni Pico (1463–1494), from whom he managed to buy the hereditary title to the lands of Mirandola. The deep relationship between the two Picos, uncle and ...
Libro detto Strega o Delle illusioni del demonio del signore Giovanfrancesco Pico dalla Mirandola nel volgarizzamento di Leandro Alberti. Venezia: Marsilio. Paola Castelli (2010). "Il demonio e la zampa d'oca nella "Strix" di Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola". In Salvatore Geruzzi (ed.). Uomini, demoni, santi e animali tra Medioevo ed Età ...
Jul 12, 2020 · Count Gianfrancesco (Gianfrancesco I) "Signore della Mirandola, Conte de Concordia" Pico. Born 1415 in Mirandola, Cologne, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. Ancestors. Son of Giovanni Pico and Catharina Bevilaqua. [sibling (s) unknown]
