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Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across multiple scholarly catalogs (including the I Tatti Renaissance Library, which publishes modern translations of Pico's works) have yielded no evidence of a complete or partial English translation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's 'Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem'. While the work is frequently discussed in secondary literature (such as Ovanes Akopyan's 'Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance'), no English translation of the Latin text itself exists.
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Pico della Mirandola dismantles the foundations of judicial astrology with surgical precision. Readers will discover why this Renaissance polymath viewed the stars not as masters of fate, but as tools used by charlatans to enslave human free will.