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Pico della Mirondello

English translation: Pico della Mirandola

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Italian term or phrase:Pico della Mirondello
English translation:Pico della Mirandola
Entered by: Lindsay Sabadosa (X)

18:22 Oct 14, 2004
Italian to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Italian term or phrase: Pico della Mirondello
a phrase from James Joyce's novel Ulysses
Fred
a name
Explanation:
From Ulyssess Annotated (a must if you want to delve into the book): Pico della Mirandola: (1463-94), an Italian humanist, philosopher, and scholar with a Renaissance mastery of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic, plus an interest in alchemy and the cabala. His flair is shown in the title he gave his theses: "De Omni Re Scibili" (On Everything that Can Be Known). Stephen's pretension is like Pico's in that Pico at twenty-three is described (Giovanni Francesco Pico, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: his Life by His Nephew, trans. Sir Thomas More, ed J.M. Regg [London, 1890], pp. 9-10) as "full of pryde and desyrous of glory and mannes prayse ... He went to Rome and there convetynge to make a shew of his connynge: (& lytel consideringe how grete envye he sholde reyse angaynst hymslefe)" set out to publicize the scope and breadth of his obscure and esoteric learning. He was subjected to humiliation and partial defeat.
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Lindsay Sabadosa (X)
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4 +5Pico della Mirandola
Giusi Pasi
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Pico della Mirandola


Explanation:
it should be the mispelled name of the Italian philosopher

Giusi Pasi
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Local time: 18:56
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a name


Explanation:
From Ulyssess Annotated (a must if you want to delve into the book): Pico della Mirandola: (1463-94), an Italian humanist, philosopher, and scholar with a Renaissance mastery of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic, plus an interest in alchemy and the cabala. His flair is shown in the title he gave his theses: "De Omni Re Scibili" (On Everything that Can Be Known). Stephen's pretension is like Pico's in that Pico at twenty-three is described (Giovanni Francesco Pico, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: his Life by His Nephew, trans. Sir Thomas More, ed J.M. Regg [London, 1890], pp. 9-10) as "full of pryde and desyrous of glory and mannes prayse ... He went to Rome and there convetynge to make a shew of his connynge: (& lytel consideringe how grete envye he sholde reyse angaynst hymslefe)" set out to publicize the scope and breadth of his obscure and esoteric learning. He was subjected to humiliation and partial defeat.

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Native speaker of: English
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