⚠The page shows significant aging, foxing, and staining. Several library stamps and handwritten ownership marks overlap the text and central emblem.

THE CHOICE

AND MORE OBSCURE

TEACHINGS

OF THE KABBALISTS,

Cabalistarum: Followers of Kabbalah, a Jewish mystical tradition. In the Renaissance, Christian scholars like Pico della Mirandola adapted these ideas into "Christian Kabbalah."

FORMERLY EXCERPTED BY GIOVANNI PICO

FROM THEIR OWN

COMMENTARIES,

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) was a brilliant Renaissance philosopher who famously sought to reconcile all schools of thought—Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Kabbalah—into a single Christian truth.

AND NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME ILLUSTRATED

WITH MOST BRILLIANT INTERPRETATIONS BY

ARCHANGELO OF BORGONOVO,

of the Order of Friars Minor.

Archangelo of Borgonovo was a Franciscan monk (Friar Minor) who defended Pico’s controversial Kabbalistic theses years after Pico's death.

In which you will find not a few things that contribute wonderfully to that

most beautiful and hidden method of philosophizing

through numbers and mathematics.

With a very extensive Index of all the more notable subjects.

WITH PRIVILEGE.

original: "Cum Privilegio." This was a 16th-century form of copyright, granting the printer exclusive rights to publish the work for a certain period.

Top right blue ink stamp with a crown: This likely represents an institutional or royal library mark from the 19th or 20th century. Handwritten ink notation on left: from the Bequest original: "ex Legato." This indicates the book was donated to a library as part of a legacy or will. Handwritten ink signature on right: P. J. Fosciari? Likely a former owner of the book before it entered an institutional collection. Circular library stamp on lower left (Jesuit College of Rome): LIBRARY OF THE ROMAN COLLEGE OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS. Oval library stamp on lower right (National Library of Rome): NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ROME, VICTOR EMANUEL This stamp marks the book's seizure by the Italian state after 1870, when many religious libraries were nationalized.

The central image is the printer's mark of Francesco de' Franceschi. It depicts a female figure—likely a personification of Peace—holding an olive branch while standing near a fire, representing the refinement of wisdom through trial or the calming influence of peace over destruction.

With the approval of the Superiors.

original: "Cum approbatione Superiorum." This confirms the book passed the religious censorship required by the Catholic Church.

AT VENICE, from the house of Francesco de' Franceschi

of Siena. 1569.