Download or read book Syncretism in the West written by Stephen Alan Farmer and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 1998 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English translation, with a new Latin edition, of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's compilation of what he considered the whole of western thought, including Jewish and Arabic, from the earliest times to his own, which he prepared as background material for a grand debate he planned the next year in Rome. Farmer analyzes the man, times, text, genre, transmission, and other aspects before presenting the Latin original and an English translation on facing pages, which are in turn firmly grounded with footnotes. Names and works are indexed separately from subjects. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR