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manifesto to claim Pico’s and Pio’s own rights on theirpossessions, i.e. Mirandola and Carpi (cf. L. Balsamo,Alberto III Pio e Aldo Manuzio: editoria a Venezia e Carpifra ‘400 e ‘500, in: “Per la storia del libro. Scritti di LuigiBalsamo raccolti in occasione dell’80° compleanno”, Firenze,2006, pp. 68-71).Giovan Francesco Pico was born at Mirandolain 1469 from Galeotto I Pico, brother of Giovanni Picodella Mirandola, the famous philosopher. He receivedhis education at the court of Ferrara, but it was the uncleGiovanni, only six years older, who had a major influenceon him. In 1496 he published Giovanni’s OperaOmnia, adding a biography of the uncle at the beginningof the edition. Another influential figure in the educationof Giovan Francesco was Girolamo Savonarola, to whomhe dedicated his De morte Christi et propria cogitanda libritres. In 1499, after the death of his father Galeotto, GiovanFrancesco became Lord of Mirandola by imperial investiture.But soon after his younger brothers, Ludovicoand Federico, supported by their mother, began to claimtheir rights and, with the help of the condottiere Gian GiacomoTrivulzio, conquered Mirandola, forcing GiovanFrancesco into exile. In the following years he publishedthe treaty De Immaginatione, and tried to regain his possessionswith the support of Alberto Pio. He also went toGermany twice to claim his own possessions before theEmperor Maximilian.In the meanwhile, between 1506 and 1509, hismother and brothers died; Mirandola was then ruledby Galeotto under the regency of his mother, FrancescaTrivulzio, Ludovico’s widow. Only in 1511, by obtainingthe protection of the emperor and of pope Julius II, Giovan Francesco was again established as legitimate ruler ofMirandola. During the exile he published some important works, among them De Rerum praenotione, Theoremata defide, and De providentia Dei. However, in June 1511 Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, at the head of the French army, enteredMirandola and forced Giovan Francesco to escape. A solution to the problem of the possession of Mirandola wasfound only in 1514, when through imperial intercession an agreement was reached between Francesca Trivulzioand Giovan Francesco: this latter obtained Mirandola, while Francesca became the ruler of Concordia.Back to Mirandola, Giovan Francesco devoted himself to the studies. In 1516 he published in Rome the Deamore divino, in 1519 the De imitatione and the Physici libri duo. The De veris calamitatum causis nostrorum temporumwas issued in 1519 at a newly open printing press in Mirandola. In 1523 he published Strix sive de ludificatione daemonium,one of his most important treatises. Giovan Francesco had an intense correspondence with many scholars andhumanists all over Europe, like Johann Reuchlin, Pietro Bembo, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi, Jacopo Sadoleto, and manyothers. He was assassinated in 1553 by killers sent against him by his nephew Galeotto (cf. P. Castelli, Giovanni eGianfrancesco Pico: l’opera e la fortuna di due studenti ferraresi, Firenze, 1998, passim; and A. Traldi, Gianfrancesco Picodella Mirandola, il litteratissimo, Nonantola, 1994, passim).Edit 16, CNCE33866; Adams, P-1151. € 6.800,00one of Luther’s teachers in philosophy at Erfurt7) ARNOLDI DE USINGEN, Bartholomaeus (ca. 1465-1532). Parvulus philosophiae naturalis Figuralisinterpretatio in Epitoma philosophie naturalis in laudatissimo Erffurdiensi gymnasio per Barth. de Usingen liberaliumstudiorum concinnata… Annexa est huic opuscolo Quaestio ardua de Quiditate quantitatis continue.Basel, Jakob Wolff, December 4, 1511.4to; later half vellum; CXL [i.e. 130], (1 blank) ll. A 8 , B-C 6 , D4, E-G 8 , H 12-1 , I 6 , K-S 8 , T 4 . In gathering H the last leaf (H12)is not present as in all copies (cf. Adams, U-91). With a large woodcut on leaf XLVIIIv. In the final index the pagenumbering has been added by a contemporary hand. A nice copy.SECOND EDITION (first: Leipzig, 1499) of this compendium on natutal philosophy intended to introduce studentsinto the application of nominalistic criteria. The author of the text for which Arnoldi made his commentarywas apparently not known to him. He has been identified as Peter of Dresden (Peter Gerticz), whose treatise withthe same title, Parvulus philosophiae naturalis, was often used as teaching material in the city schools since theend of the fourteenth century. It was a concise exposition of the main contents of Aristotelian natural philosophy(cf. P. Kärkkäinen, Psychology and the Soul in Late Medieval Erfurt, in: “Vivarium”, 47, 2009, p. 425; see also S. Lalla,Secumdum viam modernam. Ontologischer Nominalismus bei Bartholomäus von Usingen, Würzburg, 2003, pp. 77-89).The work contains overall 56 Quaestiones, each one beginning with ‘Utrum’, divided into two groups. At- 8 -