Giovanni Pico della Mirandola; Yohanan Alemanno; supreme happiness; mors osculi

The main goal of this study is to focus on Pico’s concept of felicitas supernaturalis, especially on his idea of divine wisdom, realized in the form of an eternal Logos (i. e. the Second Person of God / Christ). In this context we must point out that Pico was also drawn into a polemic bout with his contemporary Jewish intellectual Y. Alemanno, who presented a similar concept of the old wisdom (Hokhmah) in his works (e. g. Hay ha-ʽOlamin). Using an analysis of Pico’s texts (e. g. Conclusiones, 1486, Apologia, 1487, and Heptaplus, 1489) I examine his syncretic model of the eternal Logos (inspired by Aristotelian and Neoplatonic philosophy as well as by Jewish and Christian mystical tradition (e.g. Dionysius, Abulafia, Recanati).