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* Franco Bacchelli's Giovanni Pico e Pier Leone da Spoleto: tra filosofia dell'amore e tradizione cabalistica is comprised of two intensive, philologically based investigations. In the first, after describing new translations from the Hebrew of philosophical and kabbalistic works, Bacchelli discusses the intellectual relationship between Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Pierleone da Spoleto. In this context Bacchelli attempts to reconstruct the debate between Ficino and Pico on natural magic, showing the connection of this discussion to Lodovico Lazzarelli's ideas. In the second investigation Bacchelli publishes and comments on newly discovered fragments of Pico's Commento sopra una canzona de aware of Girolamo Benivieni. Both studies are important contributions to our understanding of the rich culture which Pierleone and Pico shared with...