Rutkin H Darrel
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, NY 10028, USA.
Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci. 2010 Jun;41(2):117-24. doi: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2010.04.007. Epub 2010 May 14.
Although in his later years Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) vehemently rejected astrology, he earlier used it in a variety of ways, but primarily to provide further evidence for positions to which he had arrived by other means. One such early use appears in his commentary on his friend Girolamo Benivieni's love poetry, the Canzone d'amore, of 1486-1487. In the passages discussed here, Pico presents an intensive Platonic natural philosophical analysis based on a deep astrologically informed understanding of human nature as he attempts to explain a perennial question, namely, why one person is attracted to a certain person (or people), and another to others. I will place this discussion of the mysteries of attraction and desire in historical perspective by tracing Pico's changing relationship to astrology during the course of his short but passionate life, and in historiographic perspective by revising Frances Yates's still influential views concerning Pico's contribution to Renaissance thought and his relationship with Marsilio Ficino.
尽管乔瓦尼·皮科·德拉·米兰多拉（1463 - 1494）晚年强烈反对占星术，但他早年曾以多种方式运用占星术，不过主要是为他通过其他途径得出的观点提供进一步的证据。他在1486 - 1487年对朋友吉罗拉莫·贝尼维尼的爱情诗歌《爱的颂歌》的评论中就有这样一种早期运用。在此处讨论的段落中，皮科基于对人性的深入占星学理解，进行了密集的柏拉图式自然哲学分析，试图解释一个长久以来的问题，即为什么一个人会被某个人（或某些人）吸引，而另一个人会被其他人吸引。我将通过追溯皮科在其短暂却充满激情的一生中与占星术不断变化的关系，从历史角度对这种关于吸引力和欲望之谜的讨论进行定位，并通过修正弗朗西斯·耶茨关于皮科对文艺复兴思想的贡献及其与马西利奥·菲奇诺关系的仍具影响力的观点，从史学角度进行定位。
