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A as demiurge, 94, 98 Abraham, 98, 195 Adam, 71, 98, 100, 176, 184, 192, as Christian pietas, 119 199. See also Adam Kadmon as Hesed, 99 Adam Kadmon, 122, 184. See also Abulafia, Abraham, 105, 106, 112, Tree of Life 113, 119, 127, 129, 156, 167, Great Adam, 98, 119, 134, 175, 179, 193 178 Book of the Secrets of the Torah heavenly Adam, 94 (Sitre Torah), 112 makroanthropos, 94 Conclusions (Pico), 106, 112, 113, adhaeresis, 100 178 Adramitteno, Manuel, 15, 36 act, 2, 21, 22, 41, 55, 69, 93, 96, aeons, 97, 100, 101, 103, 105, 107, 109, 119, 120, 124, 138, 139, 136 141, 145–147, 149, 155, 161, agnosia, 113 162, 165, 169, 172, 174, 180, Alemanno, Johanan (Johanan ben 184, 196, 206, 212 Isaac Alemanno), 106, 123, 128 Active (Agent) Intellect, 3, 55, 83, Commentary on Genesis, 111, 206 105, 106, 114, 119, 123, 135, Commentary on Song of Songs, 151, 153–157, 171, 178–181, 111, 128 183, 185, 193, 194, 210 Pico, 109, 111–113, 126, 128, 150, intellectus agens, 154 194, 198, 206 Active Divinity. See also Adam Alexander of Aphrodisias, 82, 154, Kadmon; God; Plato 181. See also peripatetics as creator, 94, 98 Alexander VI (pope), 22, 42

© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive 233 license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 S. Howlett, Re-evaluating Pico, Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59581-4 234 INDEX allegory, 7, 79, 116, 137, 138, 146, 80–82, 94, 111, 112, 114, 116, 160, 195, 211, 213 118, 119, 123, 135, 137, 139, anagogical, 116, 137, 144, 176, 213 141, 142, 149, 153, 160, 168, Angelic Mind, 95, 136, 146, 149– 173, 178–180, 182–185, 187, 153, 155, 156, 158–162, 167, 191, 193, 208, 212. See also Del 172, 175, 179, 183, 191, 193, Medigo, Elijah; Nifo, Augustino, 203, 207. See also Christ; Enoch; Vernia, Nicoletto intellectual; Metatron; son of humanism/humanists, 1, 13, 57, God; supracelestial 71, 73, 74, 88 divine providence, 161 logic, 13, 55, 58, 59, 63, 72 angels, 54, 91, 99–102, 108, 111, Aristotelian abstraction, 185, 187 114, 136, 150, 151, 155–158, , 3, 6, 14, 31, 32, 178, 179, 183, 190, 191, 34–36, 49, 54–63, 66, 69–71, 193. See also cherubim; Enoch; 73, 75–77, 79, 101, 104, 105, Metatron; Seraphim; Thrones 109, 111, 114, 115, 120, 135, (angels) 144, 146, 154, 163, 180, 191, animal, 66, 176–178, 180, 188, 200, 208, 209, 211, 212 202 Aristotelian Recovery, 5, 61, 73 anima mundi, 136, 151 Aristotle. See also Active (Agent) annus mirabilis, 16, 29 Intellect; Aristotelian; Aris- Anpin Penima’in (face of God), 94 totelianism; Aristotelian Recovery; Antiquari, Jacopo, 65 neo-Aristotelianism; peripatetics; Apology (Pico) (Apologia tredecim Simplicius; Themistius quaestionum), 20, 29, 32, 33, 41, Ars rhetorica, 61 43, 45, 49, 116, 129 Complete Works, 37, 61 apophatic theology, 54, 139, 140, De Anima,De Coelo, 60 144, 148 Nicomachean Ethics, 60, 147, 197 apophatike, 113 , 60, 62, 67, 82 negative theology, 3, 113, 135, and Plato, 2, 18, 25, 29, 33–36, 144, 149, 212 54, 69, 75–77, 81 Aquinas, Thomas, 13, 14, 57, 59–61, ascent, 29, 102, 106, 114, 115, 117, 69, 79, 82, 85, 114, 165 121, 135, 138, 141, 149, 171, Summa Theologiae, 155 182–185, 187, 190–193, 195, , 14, 15, 39, 62, 63, 83, 104, 212. See also Jacob’s Ladder; soul 109, 110, 123, 127, 198 and catharsis, 192 language, 5 and purification, 191, 192 texts, 15, 18, 110 and ritual, 196 Arezzo, 18, 40 ascetic/asceticism, 3, 5–7, 26, 30, 56, Argyropoulos, John, 60 107, 173, 187, 190, 192, 195, Aristippus, Henry, 109 204, 205, 210, 213 Aristotelian, 3, 6, 14, 15, 34, 36, asiluth, 95 38, 49, 55–64, 69, 71, 72, 74, astrology. See also vera astrologia INDEX 235

and Aristotle, 34, 49, 67, 160 Barbaro, Ermolao, 15, 29, 30, 38, 47, and astral magic, 67 56, 57, 61, 62, 65, 72, 81, 82, and astronomy, 67, 68, 84 84 and determinism, 168 beast, 173, 176, 177 and Disputations (Pico), 30, 34, 35, beauty, 32, 60, 65, 69, 96, 99, 49, 66–68, 85, 86, 160, 161 147–149, 151–153, 184–191, as divinatory, 67 203 and Ficino, 34, 35, 49, 66–68, 80, as corporeal, 152, 185, 187 85, 86, 159, 182 as heavenly, 152, 186–189 as judicial, 34, 49, 67, 86, 168 as innate, 187 as magical, 34 as intellectual, 151, 152, 189 and Pavia, 67 Being, 66, 68, 69, 94, 114, 143. See and Pico, 30, 34, 35, 49, 50, also God 66–68, 80, 86, 115, 161, 168, being, 39, 59, 73, 74, 77, 83, 92, 169 94, 95, 97, 98, 102, 104, 109, and Plato, 34, 66–68, 80, 116, 160 114, 121, 135, 136, 139–148, as signs, 116, 160, 161 151–155, 157–161, 171, 172, astronomy 174, 175, 177, 178, 180, 188, astrology, 66–68, 84 192 Pavia, 67 as causal, 56, 143, 144, 146, 148, 153, 155, 160, 187, 212 true, 67 as formal, 143, 144, 146, 150, 153, Augustine. See St. Augustine 155, 160, 187 authority, 20, 22, 26, 50, 57, 60, 63, as participatory, 56, 146, 153, 155, 67, 74, 81, 100, 105, 111, 196 160 (Ibn Rushd), 14, 15, 39, ben Gerson, Levi (Gersonides) 57, 58, 60, 62, 76, 79, 80, 83, [RaLBaG], 112, 129, 195, 208 86, 104, 126, 155, 181. See also Benivieni, Girolamo, 14, 29, 31, 32, 37, 40, 47, 48, 65, 78, 110, 127, Commentary on Plato’s Republic, 165, 185, 186, 204 62 Canzone dell’Amor Divino (‘Song Averroism/Averroist, 15, 56–58, 60, of Divine Love’), 31 62, 63, 69, 74, 86, 182, 211. ben Nachman, Moses (Nahmanides), See also Del Medigo, Elijah; 105, 112, 113, 130, 150 Maimonides, Moses; Bessarion, Basilius (Basilios) (cardinal), 75, 88 Binah (understanding) [sefira], 108, B 149, 183, 194 Bahir (Sefer ha-Bahir), 101, 104, 107, Hokmah, 96, 97, 99, 123, 108, 113, 126, 129, 141, 150, 149–151, 153, 194 176 , 97 Nehunya ben ha-Qanah, 107 Zion, 97 236 INDEX biography, 5, 27, 28. See also Pico 155–157, 174, 175, 183, 184, della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco 190, 212. See also Adam Kadmon; body, 4, 8, 12, 29, 35, 48, 66, 96, Hokmah; Jesus; Tiferet 102, 106, 107, 114, 123, 161, Christian esoterica, 1, 7 172, 174, 176–182, 185, 186, Christianity, 2, 6, 18, 22, 23, 27, 35, 188, 189, 191, 193–195, 204 42, 50, 55–57, 59, 68–70, 72, Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus, 76, 77, 88, 89, 93, 100, 103, 55, 76 113, 115, 130, 145, 146, 153, Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 12 154, 162, 163, 211, 213 Bologna University, 13, 84 Christian Kabbalism. See Kabbalism Borghese, Francesco, 199 Bori, Pier Cesare, 38–40, 42, 43, 48, Christian Platonic/Platonism, 135, 80, 127, 203, 208 146, 149, 153 Bossi, Matteo, 24 Christian reform Bruni, Leonardo, 60, 81, 87, 88. See and Savonarola, Girolamo, 1, 5, 24, also humanists 25 Busi, Giulio, 36, 38, 39, 46, 48, 122, Chrysoloras, Manuel, 60 124–130, 197 Church Fathers, 96, 182, 211 Byzantine Empire, 5, 60, 62, 92, 106 Ciliberto, Michele, 122 circle, 1, 13, 23, 28, 57, 61, 68, 103, C 111, 124, 146, 152, 153, 180, Cabala. See Kabbalah 181, 183, 184, 195, 196, 199 Catalonia, 92. See also Girona; classical revival, 35 Kabbalism; Nahmanides Commentary on a Canzone by Cathars/Catharism, 103. See also Girolamo Benivieni (Commento), Gnosticism 29. See also Benivieni, Girolamo Catholic, 115 Commentary on Job (Pico), 30, 129 Catholic Church, 5, 22, 94 Commentary on the Lord’s Prayer celestial world, 107, 114, 118, 136, (Pico), 30 138, 146, 151, 158–161, 174, 181, 191. See also anima mundi; Commentary on the Psalms (Pico), 24 fate Conclusions (Pico), 17, 19, 20, 22, ceremonial, 100 27, 29, 32–34, 36, 45, 48, 69, Chaldeans, 34, 77, 78, 90 70, 75, 76, 78, 79, 87, 89, 90, chariot, 6, 98–101, 116, 123, 144, 109, 112, 113, 115, 117, 122, 149, 151, 191. See also Merkavah 126, 128, 130–134, 139, 143, literature, 101 148, 150, 158, 164–166, 168, Charles VIII (King of France), 21 177, 194, 195, 198, 201, 207, cherubim, 138, 150, 156, 173, 183, 209, 212 190, 191, 205. See also angels concord/concordism/concordist, 7, Christ, 2, 43, 47, 49, 50, 53, 77, 11, 25, 29, 34, 36, 54, 66, 69, 91, 115, 117–119, 135, 150, 75–77, 89, 137, 138, 162, 212 INDEX 237 concordance, 2, 3, 12, 17, 55, 56, 59, Debhequth, 99, 100, 105, 114 66, 71, 75, 76, 121, 135, 136, and kawwanah, 99, 105 145, 162, 163, 204, 209, 210 and the will, 99 Concordia, 12, 23, 36, 56, 82 De ente et uno (Pico). See On Being congregation of Israel, 114, 140, 149, and the One 175 Del Medigo, Elijah (Elia), 15, 18, 39, contemplation, 46, 97, 104, 105, 108, 60, 62, 83, 106, 109, 111, 112, 141, 149, 157, 168, 178, 191, 126 192, 196 Annotationes, 62 contemplative, 19, 23, 33, 74, 78, 84, Averroism, 15, 60, 62 88, 92, 99, 105, 175, 193, 205 in Padua, 15, 18, 62, 83, 126 contemplator, 179, 191. See also and Pico, 14, 18, 39, 60, 62, 83, intelligence 106, 109, 111, 112, 126 Copenhaver, Brian, 8, 37, 43–48, 84, demons, 91, 100, 101, 196 87–90, 122, 123, 125, 129–132, descent, 49, 77, 123, 193, 207 164, 173, 192, 198, 199, 201, desire, 2, 4–6, 12, 26, 30, 46, 50, 54, 203–208 56, 58, 71, 75, 81, 86, 146–148, Corbala, 23 151, 152, 157, 171, 175, 176, Cordier, Jean, 16, 20, 21, 40 183, 184, 186, 187, 189, 192, Corneo, Andrea, 9, 19, 29, 40, 47, 48 195, 203, 213. See also beauty; cosmology, 30, 121, 135, 136. See love also universe and cognition, 148 Council of Trent, 182 as appetite, 148, 187 creation, 3, 29, 34, 54, 62, 68, 80, object of, 2, 147, 187 83, 94, 97, 98, 102, 103, 107, dignity, 11, 35, 48, 171–173, 177, 108, 117, 118, 120, 131, 135, 184, 188, 189, 197, 198 137–140, 145, 146, 151, 152, of man, 4, 16, 198 162, 165, 173, 176. See also Dionysius the Areopagite emanation (Pseudo-Dionysius) , 62, 106 and Ambrogio Traversari, 114 Crown. See Keter Celestial Hierarchy, 114, 192 corpus areopagaticum, 114 D Divine Names, 114 daemon/s. See demons and Meister Eckhart, 114 Dante, 31 Mystical Theology, 114 death, kiss of. See kiss and Pico, 55, 75, 113, 114, 120, debate, 2, 4, 7, 8, 11, 16, 17, 19, 20, 139, 141, 149, 184, 191, 192, 22, 25, 29, 30, 32–35, 40, 42, 198, 206 46, 49, 55, 57, 58, 63–65, 67, Diotima’s Ladder, 47, 184, 185, 188, 71, 76, 83, 84, 127, 161, 182, 190, 204 210 Disputations Against Astrology Rome, 17, 72, 83 (Disputationes)(Pico),50 238 INDEX

Dominican/s, 4, 5, 24, 25, 43, 45 epistemology/epistemological, 54, 59, double truth, 26, 59 154, 167, 180 dynamism, 102, 138, 155 Esdras (Ezra), 89, 91, 92 Archangel Uriel, 92 esoteric/a/esotericism, 32, 33, 78, E 104, 116, 124, 167 earth/earthly, 25, 55, 66, 67, 84, 85, Este, 13 99, 119, 159–161, 163, 172– Ercole I, 21 174, 177, 179–181, 185–189, Este family, 12 192, 193, 196, 197, 204 Ezekiel, 98, 99, 101, 102, 123. See Ebreo, Leone, 111 also chariot; Merkavah ecstasy, 195 ecstatic, 167, 189, 192, 195 F Kabbalah, 93 Facio, Bartolommeo Kabbalism, 92, 106, 113 De excellentia ac praestantia Ein-Sof (Eyn-sof ), 94, 95, 100, 104, hominis, 172 114, 116, 117, 119, 120, 131, faith, 2, 7, 20, 26, 44, 45, 50, 54, 139–146, 149, 155, 164, 183, 58, 59, 62, 69, 70, 72, 75, 76, 194, 212. See also God 89, 91, 162, 163, 180, 192, 209, and Being, 94, 139–144, 146, 212 211, 213 as the nothing, 94, 117, 140, 141, fate, 85, 161, 162, 169, 182, 190, 145 202, 210 as the Nought, 94, 117, 139, 140, felicity, 152, 153, 157, 183, 190. See 142, 145 also God elements/elementals, 36, 45, 57, 78, Ferrara, 1, 8, 12–14, 18, 23–25, 38, 89, 100, 116, 118, 123, 125, 43, 46, 47, 60, 85 136, 159, 160, 172, 173, 181 Ficino, Marsilio. See also Platonic Elijah, 98, 99 Academy of Florence; Platonic and chariot, 98 revival; Platonist, 67 and Elisha, 98 and astral magic, 66, 67 emanation/emanatory, 3, 66, 67, and astrology, 34, 35, 49, 66–68, 70, 77, 80, 83, 93–97, 99, 100, 80, 85, 86, 159, 182 102, 105, 108, 119, 125, 131, and being, 66, 69, 77, 136, 141, 135–139, 141, 145–149, 155, 145, 147, 153, 158, 165, 178 158–160, 162, 171, 177. See Book of Life (De vita libri tres), 35, also asiluth; hypostases; lightning 65, 66, 119 flash; Plato; Tree of Life; universe Commentary on Plato’s ‘Philebus’, Enlightenment, 2, 197 30 Enoch, 98, 99, 102, 105, 155, 156, Commentary on Plato’s 171, 176, 190, 200 ‘Symposium’, 31, 65, as Metatron, 98, 99, 105, 123, 155, 68 156, 167, 176 De vita coelitus comparanda, 66, 67 INDEX 239

and Golden Wits, 209 freedom, 35, 67, 86, 89, 161, 169, and Kabbalah, 113, 211 172–175, 177, 179, 180, 183, letters, 29, 31, 64, 65, 84 184, 197–199, 201–203 and magic, 35, 66, 68, 86, 111, 118 G and medicine, 67 Garcia, Pedro, 20 and On Being (Pico), 34, 66 Bishop of Ussel, 20 On the Christian Religion, 113 Garin, Eugenio, 8, 9, 36, 37, 39, 42, and the One, 34, 66, 68, 70, 114, 49, 50, 80, 82–84, 86, 87, 109, 136, 149, 153, 155, 175, 195 115, 126–128, 168, 169, 197, and Paul of Burgos, 113 198, 203 and physical love, 32 and humanism, 37, 87, 126, 198 and Pico, 3, 15, 16, 21, 25, 28, 31, gematria, 56, 68, 79, 92, 117, 32, 34, 35, 50, 56, 57, 59, 131, 194, 196. See also 63–65, 69, 70, 72, 81, 126, Kabbalism; mathematics; 136, 145, 147, 153, 159, 186 numbers; numerology Platonic Theology (Theologia Gerondi, Nissim, 176. See also Girona platonica de immortalitate Gersonides (Rabbi Levi ben Gershon, animorum), 69, 70 RaLBaG), 112, 129, 195, 208 and sympathy, 27, 66, 118 Girona, 105 and the Commentary (Pico), 28, and Kabbalism, 92, 94, 105, 116, 30–32, 65, 68, 69, 71, 72, 132 182, 195, 207 and Nahmanides, 105 First Cause, 119, 139, 141–144, 146, Gnosticism, 70, 100–104, 107, 148–150, 212. See also Aristotle 108, 124, 136, 145. See also Florence, 1, 6, 12–16, 18, 21–23, aeons; chariot; Hekhalot (palaces) 25–27, 29, 36, 38, 39, 41, 42, literature; Merkavah; mysticism, 44, 45, 50, 60, 63–65, 72, 73, Proclus, sefirot 84, 88, 110, 111, 126 Greek, 70, 92, 101 forms, 29, 34, 59, 60, 63, 70, 79, 83, God. See also Active Divinity; Anpin 91, 95, 98, 101, 102, 118, 120, Penima’in (face of God); beauty; 136, 145, 146, 151–155, 159, being; Ein-Sof ; good; infinite 174, 177, 179, 196, 198, 201. chariot of, 98, 100, 101, 123, 144, See also ideas 149, 151 and world of, 100, 150, 153–155, communion with, 7, 100 160, 180, 185, 191, 196 as creator, 70, 102, 103, 117, France, 1, 6, 13, 16, 22, 29, 32, 109 138–141 and Charles, 25, 26 as darkness, 54, 113, 117, 138–140, and Kabbalism, 1, 32, 92, 103 175 and Languedoc, 92, 103 as demiurge, 70, 102, 117 and Pico, 32 the divine, 54, 55, 75, 76, 93–96, Fratta, 18, 40, 47 98, 99, 102, 113–115, 135, 240 INDEX

139, 141, 142, 144, 146, 147, Grimani, Antonio (cardinal), 27, 112 149, 151, 154, 155, 157–160, Guarini, Battista, 14 163, 175, 178, 179, 193, 195 Guidoni, Aldobrandino, 18, 38 expression of, 76, 177 and grace, 99, 157, 163, 173, 175, H 177, 179, 180, 183, 184, 193 Hebrew, 5, 14, 15, 18, 39, 60, 62, as hidden, image/likeness of, 54, 78, 83, 93, 94, 96, 98, 102–104, 94, 97, 100, 104, 115, 139, 109–111, 115, 117, 119, 120, 145, 146, 148, 151, 162, 174, 123, 130–132, 150, 160, 194, 177, 183, 194, 212, 199 198, 208 and love, 24, 146–149, 151, 166, alphabet, 92, 96, 103 183, 186, 190 Bible, 92 as the One, 66, 68, 101, 136, 141, texts, 18, 62, 109, 110, 112 142, 145, 146, 151, 212 22, 96, 103 as plenitude, 140, 143, 145 Hekhalot (palaces) literature, 102, 108 and retraction, 95, 117, 139, 140, henosis/henotic, 3, 7, 25, 54, 55, 114, 212 120, 171, 183, 184, 190, 191, as self-contemplative unmoved 194, 195, 205, 210, 213 mover, 147 Henry of Hesse, 35 and shekinah, 99, 141, 144, 150, Heptaplus (Pico), 24, 29, 30, 32, 34, 156, 175 43, 45–48, 54, 68, 70, 72, 78, as Truth, 27, 54, 71, 77, 172, 179 86, 111, 113–115, 118, 128– throne of, 97–100, 102, 107, 123, 132, 134, 136–138, 140, 145, 149, 205 150, 152, 158, 160, 162–165, union with, 183, 184, 192, 194 167, 168, 172–174, 176, 184, as Unity, 69, 95, 96, 136, 138, 190, 192, 197, 199–203, 205, 140, 148, 150, 152, 175 207 gods, 2, 100, 136, 151, 159 heresy, 20, 41 Golden Age, 2, 5, 6, 26, 54, 72, 74, hermeneutics, 109, 138, 212 78, 104, 191, 209, 213. See also and secret, 109, 212 reform; renovatio Hermes Trismegistus, 77, 78, 120 Golden World, 69 Hermeticism, 78, 156, 198 good, 27, 28, 39, 73, 76, 102, 118, and Egyptians, 78 139, 140, 142, 144, 147–149, hexaemeron, 138 151–153, 157, 160, 166, Hokmah (divine Wisdom) [sefira], 183–185, 191, 196, 203, 212 103, 105, 119, 123, 135, 141, The Great Parchment (ha-Yeri’ah 144, 149–151, 153, 166, 191, ha-Gedolah), 112, 123, 126, 129 194. See also Active (Agent) Greek (language), 5, 15, 36, 57, 60, Intellect, Christ, materia prima 61, 75, 78, 80, 90, 92, 104, 110, and giver of forms, 98 196, 205 and hyle, 98 Gregory of Nyssa, 173 and Principium, 119 INDEX 241

as Sapientia, 119 infinite, 62, 94, 117, 126, 139 humanism. See also Aristotelian, Innocent VIII (pope), 17, 22, 41. See humanists; philology also heresy; Medici, Lorenzo de’; and active life, 73, 74 poetry; Rome and homo literatus, 72 intellect, 2, 55, 56, 62, 75, 82, 83, Pico and, 12–14, 57, 60, 71–74, 86, 96–98, 106, 117, 133, 136, 76, 173, 211 144, 148, 154–157, 165, 175, Poliziano and, 1, 14, 25, 72, 73 178–182, 186, 187, 189, 190, and Renaissance, 73, 74, 87, 88, 194, 201, 204, 207 211 Agent (or Active). See Active humanists, 1, 12, 14, 25, 36, 37, 57, (Agent) Intellect 60, 61, 71–74, 87, 88, 109, 126, intellectual, 1, 2, 4–7, 11–14, 22, 198 25, 28, 29, 36, 40, 44, 56, 58, hypostases, 118, 136, 176. See also 61–63, 65, 68, 74, 87, 89, 98, emanation 100, 109, 119, 120, 136, 153, 154, 156, 167, 168, 179, 185, 187, 195, 200, 211 I Iamblichus, 100, 131, 192 intellectual rapture, 190, 195 Ibn Rushd. See Averroes intellectual world, 118, 136, 138, ideas, 1, 5, 6, 12, 17, 22, 24, 29, 36, 149, 154. See also Angelic Mind; 41, 42, 53, 54, 59, 60, 78, 90, supracelestial 95, 100, 101, 103, 104, 109, intelligence, 85, 139, 152, 154, 157, 113, 116, 130, 146, 151–153, 174, 177–181, 183 155, 173, 179, 181, 187, 191, Isaac, 98, 103, 104, 106, 158, 168, 211. See also forms 195 Idel, Moshe, 123, 125–130, 134, as Din, 99 167, 194, 197, 200, 201, 206, Isaac the Blind (Rabbi Yitzhak Saggi 207 Nehor), 103, 112, 124. See also illumination, 120, 183, 191, 192, 194 France; Gnosticism; Kabbalism imagination, 2, 180, 200, 201, 208, Narbonne, 103, 124 210 Italian (language), 1, 11, 22, 26, 49, immanence, 196 53, 60, 62, 82, 106, 111–113, immortality, 86, 181, 182, 202 129, 194, 198 individual, 1, 3, 4, 13, 18, 23, 24, Italy, 1, 12, 19, 21, 32, 34, 37, 44, 26, 27, 35, 37, 40, 54, 59, 60, 49, 59, 60, 65, 73, 92, 106, 109, 77–79, 86, 98, 105, 120, 133, 128 140, 154, 155, 160, 161, 172, northern and central, 3, 5, 12 173, 184, 186, 196, 197, 211, 213 ascent, 72, 141, 213 journey, 6, 7, 35, 197 J soul, 6, 7, 181, 186 Jacob, 98, 99, 193, 195 242 INDEX

Jacob’s Ladder, 99, 106, 111, 112, Ebreo, Leone; Gersonides; Isaac 119, 137, 150, 171, 173–175, the Blind; Nahmanides; Recanati 184, 190–193, 196 kataphatic theology (kataphatike), 113 as Christ’s Ladder, 119 as positive theology, 144 Jesus, 19, 146 Keter (Crown or Ratson) [sefira], Jewish faith, 58 95–97, 99, 103, 108, 114, Jewish Kabbalism, 1, 3, 54 117, 119, 123, 134, 139–145, Jews, 19, 32, 41, 62, 70, 110, 115, 149–151, 153, 158, 164, 175, 120, 126, 130, 131, 197, 198 178, 183, 186, 191, 194, 212 Job, 194 breath of God (ruah elohim hayyim), Judaism, 18, 62, 92, 99–102, 115, 103, 114 127, 141, 144, 145, 162 spirit of God, 103 kiss, 189, 195, 207 binsica, 194, 207 K mittat neshikah, 194 Kabbalah, 8, 41, 79, 83, 94, 96–98, mors osculi, 194, 195, 208 101, 103, 105, 109, 111, 113, knowledge, 4, 9, 39, 50, 54, 59, 60, 116, 117, 120, 125, 128, 129, 76, 78, 83, 89, 100, 108, 114, 131, 134, 192, 198, 210, 213. 117, 118, 120, 127, 138, 139, See also Abulafia, Abraham; 178, 180, 185, 187, 192, 193, Conclusions (Pico); Idel, Moshe; 196, 205, 207, 208, 210, 213 magic; Scholem, Gershom; knowledge network, 20, 22, 25, 61 Wirszubski, Chaim as academic court, 4, 13 Kabbalism, 3, 6–8, 18, 22, 24, as entourage, 3, 4, 7, 12, 13, 36, 31–36, 39, 42, 54–56, 58, 63, 62, 63, 65, 74, 111, 210 72, 77–79, 83, 87, 89, 91–94, Kristeller, Paul Oskar, 36–38, 40, 44, 96, 97, 99–101, 103, 104, 45, 47, 49–51, 72, 80–82, 86, 106–120, 124–127, 129, 130, 87, 172, 197, 198, 200, 202, 132, 134–136, 139–141, 149, 207 150, 155, 156, 173, 184, 190, 191, 196, 198, 201, 208–213. See also Christian Kabbalism; L gematria; Jewish Kabbalism; ladder. See Jacob’s Ladder notarikon; temurah Laillier, Jean, 16, 39 as contemplative, 92 Landino, Cristoforo as speculative, 92, 106 commento sopra la Comedia, 14 Kabbalistic library (Pico’s), 62, 109, Lanfredini, Giovanni, 20, 42, 43 110 late Platonism, 69, 70, 100, 154. See Kabbalistic sources, 7, 122, 206 also Neoplatonism; Platonism Kabbalists, 74, 78, 94–97, 104, 106, Latin (language), 14, 60–63, 83, 96, 110, 112, 114, 124, 127, 130, 104, 109, 110, 115, 117, 119, 138, 149, 150, 160, 191, 195, 210 196. See also Abulafia, Abraham; Kabbalah in, 79, 128 INDEX 243

Latin (place) philosophy; operational; Europe, 18, 33, 40, 57, 58, 60, 70, theurgy/theurgic/theurgical 79, 93, 114 magician, 196 world, 5, 54, 71 as magus, 196 Letters, 87 Magnus, Albertus, 14, 61 Ficino’s, 28 Maimonides, Moses [Rabbi Moses and Germain de Ganay, 46 ben Maimon, Rambam], 58, 76, Pico’s, 28, 40 104, 105, 111, 112, 119, 125, libraries, 27, 38, 44, 64, 118, 122, 156, 195 129 Guide for the Perplexed, 104, 119, Pico’s, 27, 122 195 Vatican Library, 42, 110, 129 Maimonidean, 119, 124, 208 Life (Pico) Rabbi Moses the Egyptian, 119 and Gianfrancesco, 24, 33, 45 Malkut (Kingdom) [sefira], 95, 97, More, 28 99, 119, 120, 134, 141, 150, lightning flash, 55, 77, 93–95, 144, 175 146 Manetti, Giannozzo divine, 55, 77, 93, 144, 146 De dignitate et excellentia hominis literary, 2, 15, 27, 60, 72, 211 (On Human Worth and literary circle, 14 Excellence), 172 love, 16, 17, 21, 26, 28, 31, 32, 44, on the body, 172 46, 47, 58, 70, 76, 78, 79, 96, Manuzio, Aldo, 36 97, 110, 111, 116, 146–149, Manutius press, 61 151, 152, 165, 166, 183–190, materia prima, 98 192, 203, 204, 213. See also mathematics, 13, 15, 58, 70, 79, 96, desire 120, 137, 151, 163, 212. See also as circuitus spiritualis, 146 gematria; numbers; numerology; and divine, 147, 149, 186 Pythagorean mathematics Medici, Cosimo de’, 63 Medici, Giovanni de’ (Pope Leo X), M 26, 43 Ma’arekhet ha-Elohut, 106 Medici, Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de’, magic/magical, 23, 42, 68, 85, 26 92, 102, 104, 108, 111, 115, Medici Library, 23 118–120, 128, 130–133, 192, Medici, Lorenzo de’, 1, 14, 20–26, 196, 206 29–31, 33, 37, 38, 42, 43, 47, astral, 67 64, 65 goetic (black), 196 Medici, Lorenzo de’ (brother to Kabbalism and, 42, 92, 111, 118, Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de’), 26 130 Medici, Margherita de’, 18 Pico and, 22, 118, 196, 208. Medici, Piero de’, 26 See also ceremonial, natural Mercurio da Coreggio 244 INDEX

as Enoch, 156 modern, 1, 4, 35, 55, 80, 87, 144, and Hermeticism, 156 162, 172, 173, 197, 198, 211 Merkavah, 92, 98, 101, 102, 104, Moncada, Guglielmo Raimondo. See 105, 107, 108, 116, 119, 124, also Mithridates, Flavius 144, 149, 158 Monisart, Giovanni (Jean) chariot mysticism, 92, 98, 191 Bishop of Tournai, 20 metaphysics, 56, 72, 75, 82, 87, monotheism, 102 91–93, 104, 121, 162, 165, 175, More, Thomas, 46, 90 203 and Pico, 78 Metatron, 120, 144, 150, 156, 167, and Pico’s letters, 78 178. See also angels; shekinah and St Pico, 5, 27 translation, 28 as Enoch, 98, 99, 105, 123, 155, Moses, 77, 92, 115, 120, 128, 130, 156, 167, 176 137, 138, 160, 179, 181, 190, Great, 98 213. See also Kabbalism; Torah lower, 98 (Book of Laws); Talmud (Oral as Yahoel, 108, 123 Law) metempsychosis, 96. See also and Kabbalism, 54, 58, 91, 101, transmigration 105, 115, 211 Michelozzi, Bernardo, 65 and Mount Sinai, 91, 98 Midrash, 116, 195 mutability, 173–175, 197, 203 Milan, 12, 18 mystic, 7, 35, 75, 96, 97, 102, mind, 3, 6, 8, 31, 34, 47, 56, 81, 99, 106–108, 113, 120, 121, 131, 106, 108, 111, 118, 120, 126, 149, 156, 171, 175, 190, 192, 134, 137, 151–155, 158, 171, 194, 196 178, 179, 186, 192, 198, 200. mysticism, 3, 42, 53, 78, 79, 83, See also intellect 92, 102, 105, 107, 116, 117, Mirandola, 12, 15, 23, 36 124, 162, 196, 211. See also Mishnah (Oral Torah), 101, 124, 195 apophatic theology; Dionysius Mithridates, Flavius (Shmuel bin the Areopagite; Gnosticism; Nissim Abulfaraj) (Guglielmo Kabbalism; kataphatic theology Raimondo Moncada). See also Chariot, 92 Benivieni, Girolamo; Greek; Christian, 62, 113–115, 191, 213 Kabbalism; Medici, Margherita Jewish, 18, 39, 62, 92, 96, 100, de’ 104, 108, 117, 140, 163 and Aramaic, 110, 127 Plotinian, 70 and Hebrew, 14, 109, 110, 112 and Pico, 14, 18, 39, 95, 109–113, N 115, 127, 129, 130, 210 Nahmanides (Moses ben Nachman, Sicily, 109, 113 Ramban), 105, 112, 113, 130, Sixtus IV [pope], 110, 126 150. See also Catalonia; Girona; mobility, 174. See also will Kabbalists INDEX 245

Commentary on Sefer Yesirah, 94 O Commentary on the Torah, 105 Ockhamism/Ockhamist, 59, 61. See nature/Nature, 2, 30, 39, 53, 65, also nominalism; via moderna; 68, 80, 116, 118, 131, 136–138, William of Ockham 141, 143, 145, 146, 148, 151, On Being and the One (Pico), 30, 152, 155, 157, 159, 160, 167, 34, 45, 65, 66, 68, 69, 71, 84, 169, 171, 172, 174, 176, 177, 164–166, 200, 207, 210, 212 181, 183, 185, 188, 193, 196, operational, 92 199, 200, 203, 207, 210. See also Oration (Pico), 4, 8, 9, 24, 28, 29, subcelestial 32, 33, 35, 45, 46, 48, 68, world of, 136, 159–161, 168, 172, 72, 78, 80, 81, 89–91, 111, 181, 188 112, 114, 118, 121, 136, 138, natural philosophy, 41, 163, 184, 192, 156, 163, 164, 172, 173, 176, 193, 196, 206 182, 185, 192, 194, 196–203, 205–208 Nemesius of Emesa, 173 dignity of man, 4, 16 neo-Aristotelian, 55, 58, 61, 62, 71, oratio de hominis dignitate, 33 167 Oresme, Nicholas, 35 neo-Aristotelianism, 61, 63 orientalist, 15, 40 Neoplatonism, 69, 70, 124. See Origen, 89, 96, 123, 176, 200, 205 also late Platonism; Platonism; original/originalism/originalist, 8, Platonic 15, 26, 45, 54, 57, 60–62, 65, Neoplatonic, 70, 92, 124, 132, 202 70–73, 75, 76, 78, 80, 88, 91, Nifo, Augustino, 1, 15, 61, 82. See also 104, 108, 142, 154, 155, 179, Aristotle; Aristotelian Recovery; 184, 195, 204 Averroism; neo-Aristotelianism; Orpheus, 120, 134, 165, 205. See also Padua Orphic Hymns noesis/noetic, 3, 25, 54, 171, 191, Orphic Hymns, 118 194, 195, 213 Night, 120 nominalism/nominalists, 59, 60, 155. See also Ockhamism; via moderna; William of Ockham P notarikon, 92, 93. See also Kabbalism Padua (university), 1, 6, 13, 14, 60, nous, 3, 178. See also mind 62 numbers, 40, 56, 77–79, 92, 96, 103, pagan, 19, 53, 70 105, 107, 116, 118, 133, 137, Pallas, 120 138, 153, 156. See also gema- Papio, Michael, 8, 46, 48, 205 tria; Kabbalism; mathematics; Paris (place), 6, 13, 15, 16, 18–21, numerology 23, 56, 60, 67 numerology, 79, 92, 117, 194. Paris style, 16, 17, 20 See also gematria, Kabbalism, Paris (university), 15, 16, 21. See also mathematics, numbers Sorbonne 246 INDEX

Parmenides (Plato), 66, 68, 71, 142, and religion, 57, 75, 100, 102, 109, 212 210, 213 paths and theology, 75, 162. See also pathway, 29, 35, 36, 53, 55, 75, natural philosophy; Renaissance 79, 95, 97, 103, 113, 115, philosophy 120, 141, 213 physical love, 30, 32 thirty-two (32), 95 Pico, Alberto III Pio, 12 Pavia (university), 13, 15 Pico, Anton Maria, 12, 27 penitence, 6, 26, 28, 172 Pico della Mirandola, Gianfrancesco. penitents (piagnoni), 1, 26 See also Life Pergola biography, 5, 27 Paolo della, 61 and defense of Pico’s reputation, 27 and Ficino, 29, 30 peripatetics, 60, 81, 160. See also Aristotle; Aristotelians; Simplicius; and publication of Pico’s work, 29 Themistius and Savonarola, 4, 5 Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni. , 17, 18 See also anagogical; Apology; Petrarch, 30, 31, 73, 74, 173 Conclusions; Disputations; Petrarchan, 73 France; Heptaplus; knowledge phantasy, 159, 180. See also network; Oration; philosopher; imagination Platonic Academy of Florence; philologist, 14, 25, 73 power network philology, 54, 57, 72 contribution, 5, 135 of Alexandria (Philo Judaeus), death of, 25 94, 101, 173. See also Gnosticism and dignity of man, 4 Philoponus, John, 61 exceptionalism, 3, 210 philosopher, 14, 16, 19, 22, 23, 27, and fame, 1 28, 30, 35, 54, 56, 58, 60, 63, family, 12 69, 71, 72, 74, 75, 93, 104, 111, and Ficino, 1, 27, 63, 64 113, 116, 145, 156, 158, 172, as gentleman-philosopher, 11, 13, 173, 180, 181, 197, 210, 213 35, 54, 116, 210 and Pico, 1, 3, 11, 14, 33, 140, as hero, 63, 64 192, 211 legacy, 1, 2, 7, 27, 72 philosophia nova, 79 murder, 2 philosophical-mysticism, 77. See also myth, 11, 24 mathematics as a noble, 11, 12 philosophical theology, 17 Pico Studies, 28, 64 philosophy as prince of concord, 54, 75 and faith, 2, 7, 33, 58, 70, 75, 76, princeps concordiae, 63 162, 209 reception, 5, 28 INDEX 247

St Pico, vision, 5, 23, 24, 27, 35 Pletho, George Gemistus (George Pico, Galeotto, 12 Gemistos Plethon), 14, 37, 90, planets. See also Venus 182 Jupiter, 66, 158, 159 Plotinus, 16, 31, 36, 38, 39, 55, 57, Mercury, 158, 172 64–66, 69–71, 80, 84, 101, 123, moon, 67, 68, 136, 158, 159 136, 141, 143–145, 149, 154, Saturn, 119, 158, 159 164, 173, 176, 177, 181, 182, 191, 201, 205, 210, 211 Uranus, 158 Plato. See also #Platonism; Platonist/s Enneads, 57, 65, 136 and Aristotle, 2, 17, 30, 50, 56, 66, Plotinian, 69, 94, 116, 117, 136, 71, 75, 76, 82, 88, 89, 142, 138, 141–144, 158, 175, 176, 209, 212 183, 212 and cave, 160, 180 poetic theology, 37, 80, 86, 88 and love theory, 16, 28, 29 Poliziano (Angelo Ambrogini) Parmenides, 66, 71, 134, 142, 212 and Aristotelian logic, 72 Phaedo, 181 death of, 23, 25 Phaedrus, 100 and Ficino, 35, 64 Sophist, 143 and humanism, 1, 14, 25, 72, 73 Symposium, 16, 31, 166, 184, 185, Lamia, 72 195, 205 and philology, 72 Timaeus, 102, 118 and poetry, 14 Platonic Academy of Florence, 2, 63, relationship with Pico, 25 68, 70, 81, 84. See also Ficino, pope, 1, 2, 11, 17, 19, 20, 22, 26, 28, Marsilio 40, 43, 44, 61. See also Alexander Platonic furori, 195 VI; Innocent VII; Leo X; Sixtus Platonic revival, 5, 13–15, 31, 57, 58, IV 63, 72, 73, 81, 99, 175. See also and Pico, 22, 65 Ficino, Marsilio possible intellect (intellectus possibilis), Platonism, 3, 6, 13–16, 27, 31, 154, 155 32, 34, 36, 54–59, 63, 65, 66, power network, 13, 16, 18, 21 69–74, 76, 80, 81, 88, 92, 93, and elite, 11, 12 95–98, 100, 101, 104, 109, as geopolitical network, 11 114–116, 120, 121, 123, 132, and powerbrokers, 11, 12, 19 135, 139, 144, 149, 154, 163, 176, 191, 209, 211, 212. See also prima materia (prime matter), 136, late Platonism; Neoplatonism 145, 159, 161 Platonist/s, 1, 6, 14, 26, 34, 36, 47, as potentiality, 145 55–57, 64, 69, 71, 79, 81, 94, as privation, 145 101, 120, 136, 142, 144, 145, as truly not being, 144 153, 171, 179, 180, 182. See also prisca magia, 56, 71, 77, 78. See also Ficino, Marsilio prisca theologia 248 INDEX prisca theologia, 71, 72, 77, 78, 80, reform, 1, 4–6, 23, 24, 49, 61, 72, 89, 92, 111, 120, 123, 211. See 73, 75, 88, 197, 210, 213. See also prisca magia also renovatio Proclus, 55, 66, 69–71, 79, 87, Renaissance, 2, 4, 11, 13, 59, 73, 100, 101, 118, 131, 135, 136, 103, 104, 172, 195, 211 145, 149, 162, 182, 192, 205, Italian, 1, 2, 211 210, 211. See also Gnosticism; renaissance court, 12 mysticism renaissance man, 172, 211 and baroque, 70, 87, 136, 162, 211 Renaissance philosophy, 173, 212 and henads, 100 renovatio, 3, 54, 69, 72, 78, 106, Platonic Theology, 69, 70, 100, 191, 194, 213. See also Golden 162 Age; Golden World; reform theurgical, 68 Reuchlin, Johannes, 93 Proteus, 173, 197 De Arte Cabalistica, 93 providence, 85, 161, 182, 202, 210 Riva, Massimo, 131, 164, 167, 168, 197, 199, 203, 205 Pseudo-Dionysius . See Dionysius the Rome, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13, 15–22, 29, 33, Areopagite 39, 40, 43, 46, 48, 49, 72, 74, purification, 191, 192, 206 83, 111, 126, 196, 204, 213 Pythagoras, 56, 68, 70, 77, 78, 89, 91, 118, 120, 132, 134, 136, 160, 192. See also tetraktys S Pythagorean, 79, 103, 116– Salviati, Benigno, 25, 33 118, 153, 163, 176, 184, Savonarola 193. See also mathematics; Trattato contra li astrologi, 35 philosophical-mysticism scandals Pythagorean mathematics, 56 Pico’s abduction of Margherita, 64 scholastic/scholastics. See scholasticism scholasticism, 6, 13, 16, 20, 33, 59, 63, 73, 154, 211. See also R nominalism; Ockhamism; realism; Ramusio, Girolamo, 15 via antiqua; via moderna; realism, 59, 60, 155. See also via William of Ockham antiqua Scholem, Gershom, 101, 103, 107, reason, 2, 6, 7, 21, 54, 58, 59, 62, 119 70, 72, 75, 76, 116, 117, 140, science, 35, 57, 68, 91, 115, 116, 142, 143, 147, 154, 157, 159, 137, 160–162, 192 162, 163, 172, 175, 177–181, Scotus, Duns, 14 186–188, 192, 209–211, 213 Sefer Yesirah (Book of Creation), 103, Recanati, Menahem 105, 107, 112 Commentary on the Pentateuch, Sefira/Sefirot. See also aeons; Keter; 106. See also Conclusions Hokmah; Tiferet; Binah; Active (Pico) Divinity; apophatic theology; INDEX 249

Gnosticism; Proclus; vera spirit, 24, 25, 55, 74, 105, 146, 156, astrologia 175, 178–181, 188, 190, 196 Da’at (knowledge or gnosis), 108 St. Augustine, 59, 70, 76, 153, 154, Gevurah/Din (severity or 156 judgment), 108 Confessions, 154 Hesed (grace or love), 96 studia humanitatis, 73 Hod (splendor or majesty), 97 Studium, 73, 109 Netsah (endurance), 97 subcelestial, 136. See also nature numerations, 158 supracelestial, 136, 149, 172, 190. safar, sappir (sapphire), 107 See also Angelic Mind; intellectual ten, Yesod, 97 world syncretism/syncretic, 36, 53, 69–71, senses, 85, 153, 154, 177–181, 74–77, 116, 120, 139, 145, 173, 185–188 209, 210, 212, 213 world of, 177 Seraphim, 150, 156, 183, 190, 191 Sforza, Ludovico Maria, 21 T Sforzas (family), 1, 12 Talmud (oral law), 92. See also Moses Shekinah (she who dwells) Taverno, Stefano, 18 and gnostic Sophia, 108 Temurah, 92, 194. See also Kabbalism as hidden, 99 tetraktys, 118, 178, 192 higher, 99 Themistius, 61. See also Aristotelian, lower, 99 peripatetics as presence of God, 141 theology. See also mysticism; throne of, 99 philosophical theology as voice, 99 apophatic, 54, 94, 113, 135, 139, shem/shemot, 116 140, 144, 148, 162 kataphatic, 54, 94, 113, 114, 144, Sicily, 109, 113 162 Siger of Brabant, 59 poetic, 2, 14, 17, 25, 29, 36, 75, Simplicius, 61 209 sonofGod,120, 134, 150, 155, 156 Theon of Smyrna, 118 Sorbonne (university). See Paris theses. See also Apology; Conclusions; (university) heresy; Innocent VIII; Kabbalah; soul. See also anima mundi; ascent; Rome metempsychosis defense of, 33 sensible, 185 and Kabbalah, 42 sensitive, 137, 159 magical, 131 transmigration of, 176, 194 Pico’s, 17, 21, 32, 33, 40, 42, 43, unity with God, 97, 117, 136, 138 48 world of, 136 theurgy/theurgic/theurgical. See also Spagnuoli, Battista, 24 magic/magical Speusippus, Nicomachus, 118 ceremonial, 70 250 INDEX throne, 99–101, 150, 158, 171, 183, universal/s, 59, 60, 116, 142, 151, 191 153–155, 160, 179, 180, 185, God’s, 97, 99, 100, 102, 107, 123, 186 149, 205 universe. See also cosmology Thrones (angels), 156 as garden, 171 Tiferet (beauty or splendor or mercy) as text, 196 [sefira]. See also Christ university/universities, 13, 26, 40, 58, and Jacob, 98, 99, 119 59, 73, 74, 82, 88 as shining mirror, 119 as six, 119 Torah (Book of Law), 92, 98. See also V Moses vegetable, 137, 159 transcendence, 102, 191 Venice, 13, 27, 61 translations, 72, 109, 110, 176. See Venus. See also Beauty also Mithridates, Flavius; More, celestial, 185 Thomas earthly, 159 transmigration, 96, 172, 176, 177, heavenly, 152, 186, 189 194. See also metempsychosis vulgar, 152 Tree of Life vera astrologia, 68 lightning flash, 55, 77, 93–95, Vernia, Nicoletto, 15, 23, 61 144. See also Adam Kadmon; Anpin Penima’in (face of God); via antiqua, 13, 16, 56, 59, 60. See Sefira/Sefirot also scholasticism triads/triadism, 96–98, 100, 103, via moderna, 6, 13, 16, 20, 56, 59, 108, 118, 119, 132, 136, 146, 60. See also scholasticism 149–151, 158, 159, 178, 191, Visconti, Gian Galeozzo (Duke of 195, 211 Milan), 21 Trinity, 91, 100, 101, 118, 134, 149 volition, 145–147 truth, 3, 7, 9, 11, 17, 27, 32, 33, 37, 46, 54, 59, 64, 71, 75–77, 88, 89, 93, 101, 115, 120, 137, 139, W 140, 142, 144, 154, 172, 177, will, free, 161, 162, 176, 178, 183 179, 180, 209, 212, 213 William of Ockham, 58, 59 Turks, 15 Wirszubski, Chaim, 39, 122, 125, Tuscan (language), 14 127–134, 208 Twelve Rules for the Spiritual Battle Wisdom literature. See also Gnosticism; (Pico), 30 Hokmah Sophia, 103, 108 World-soul. See also anima mundi; U celestial world; soul unio mystica, 105, 113, 114, 186, as Calliope, 159 213 as Jupiter, 66, 158, 159 INDEX 251

Z spanish, 106, 108 Zachariah, 158 Zoroaster zimzum (void). See also Nahmanides and retraction, 95 Chaldean Oracles, 78 , 107, 108, 112, 113, 128 paternal mind, 120