PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Francesco. De Phantasia … liber, in quo quæ imaginationis facultas, natura, queque ei erroris causa sit, quibusque remediorum præsidijs occurri possit.

[Colophon:] Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1536

8vo, mm. 150x102; Quarter calf binding beginnning of XIXth century, gilt titles and ornaments on the spine, corners; leaves 48 nn, Coll. A-F8, leaf F7 blank, Colophon on F6r “basileæ excudebat henricus petrus mense martio anno M. D. XXXVI.”; Woodcut initials, Round and Greek type, printer's device at the end. Fine copy.

Very rare edition. The De imaginatione, composed of twelve chapters, is a reflection on the name of imaginatio and function that it designates: built on the thread of the De anima of Aristotle, insists on the epistemological centrality, misleading suggestions and specular opportunities for elevation to the divine treasury of fantastic faculties. The thin disquisitions through which the imagination was distinguished from the sense and the intellect are punctually recalled from Pico in the presentation of a series of considerations based on full adherence to Aristotelian opinions.

Cfr. Lucia Pappalardo., Giovan Francesco Pico della Mirandola e la filosofia: dal De imaginatione all’Examen Vanitatis, in Schola Salernitana, Annali vol. XIII, 2008, pp. 245-265. NUC, v. 457, p. 337.The Lot is offered with a valid export licence.