Francesco Molinarolo

This paper aims to provide an analysis of Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s position in the context of the early 16th century debate on the immortality of the human soul. Questioning Charles B. Schmitt’s hypothesis regarding the period in which Pico’s Digressio de animae immortalitate would have been written, it will be shown that this work contains some remarks which can be traced back to an opposition of their author against Pietro Pomponazzi’s conclusion that, from a philosophical standpoint, the assertion of the mortality of the human soul is more plausible that its opposite...