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A Dominican Reader of Pico’s Apologia

2009; Librairie philosophique J. Vrin; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

2118-4445

Jérôme Rousse-Lacordaire,

Historical Studies of British Isles

By the early 18th century, the Christian Cabala, which Pico della Mirandola had brought to light, had fallen into relative neglect for about thirty years. And yet, the Institutiones ad Verbi Dei scripti intelligentiam, the work of the Dominican master theologian, Josephus Maria de Turre, published in 1711, dedicate an entire treatise to the Cabala. In it, de Turre refers mainly to the works of Pico della Mirandola, Sixtus of Sienna, Wilhelm Schickard and Jacques Bonfrere, proposing a threefold division of the Cabala: an evil, magic and mantic Cabala; a neutral, speculative and theoretical Cabala; and a pious Cabala which seeks to interpret Scripture and its mysteries. It does not appear that anyone emulated de Turre’s work; indeed, it seems to have been unknown even to those who would subsequently become the interpreters and advocates of the Cabala in Catholic circles.