Cardano’s Opera omnia

Cardano, Girolamo, Opera omnia, ed. Charles Spon, 10 volumes, Lyon: Jean-Antoine Huguetan and Marc-Antoine Ravaud, 1663; repr. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann, 1966, abbreviated in this article as ‘OO’).

For the many editions of Cardano’s work published before the 1663 Opera omnia, see the chronology established by Ian Maclean in Cardano 2004a, 43–111.

Modern Editions of Cardano’s Works

• 1953, Book on Games of Chance, trans. Sydney Henry Gould, in Oystein Ore, Cardano: The Gambling Scholar, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 182–241.
• 1973, Writings on Music, ed. and trans. Clement A. Miller, Rome: American Institute of Musicology.
• 1982, Della mia vita, ed. and trans. Alfonso Ingegno, Milan: Serra e Riva.
• 1990, L’oroscopo di Cristo, ed. and trans. Armando Torno, Milan: Philobiblon. (Scholar)
• 1992, Sul sonno e sul sognare, eds. Mauro Mancia and Agnese Grieco, trans. Silvia Montiglio and Agnese Grieco, Venice: Marsilio.
• 1998, Aforismi astrologici, ed. Giuseppe Bezza, trans. Renzo de Martino, Milano: Xenia.
• 1999, Pronostico generale dil nobile messer Hieronymo Cardano physico milanese, ed. Germana Ernst, in Girolamo Cardano: Le opere, le fonti, la vita, eds. Marialuisa Baldi and Guido Canziani, Milan: Angeli, 461–475.
• 2001, Il prosseneta, ovvero della prudenza politica, ed. and trans. Piero Cigada, Milan: Mondadori.
• 2002 [1930], The Book of My Life, trans. Jean Stoner and intro. Anthony Grafton, New York: ‎ NYRB Classics.
• 2003, Metoposcopia: manuale per la lettura della fronte: interpretazione dei caratteri in base alle linee frontali e ai nei illustrato con ottocento immagini, con le corrispondenze astrologico-planetarie, ed. and trans. Arecchi Albert, Milan: Mimesis.
• 2004a, De libris propriis: The editions of 1544, 1550, 1557, 1562, with supplementary material, ed. Ian Maclean, Milan: FrancoAngeli.
• 2004b, De subtilitate, Tomo I, Libri I-VII, ed. Elio Nenci, Milan: FrancoAngeli.
• 2005, Come si interpretano gli oroscopi, ed. and trans. Ornella Pompeo Faracovi, Pisa and Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali.
• 2006a, De immortalitate animorum, ed. José Manuel García Valverde, Milan: FrancoAngeli.
• 2006b, Liber de ludo aleae, ed. Massimo Tamborini, Milan: FrancoAngeli.
• 2008a, De Sapientia libri quinque, ed. Marco Bracali, Florence: Olschki.
• 2008b, Somniorum Synesiorum libri quatuor. Les quatres livres des songes de Synesios, 2 vols., ed. and trans. Jean-Yves Boriaud, Florence: Olschki.
• 2008c, Elogio di Nerone, ed. and trans. Marco Di Branco, Rome: Salerno.
• 2008d, De utilitate ex adversibus capienda praefatio, ed. Raffaele Passarella, Milan: Angeli.
• 2009, De Uno. Sobre lo uno, ed. and trans. José Manuel García Valverde, Florence: Olschki.
• 2011a, Artis magnae sive de regulis algebraicis liber unus, ed. Massimo Tamborini, Milan: Angeli.
• 2011b, Guglielmo: Dialogo sulla morte, ed. José Manuel García Valverde, trans. Paolo Raimondi Turin: Aragno.
• 2013, The De Subtilitate of Girolamo Cardano, 2 vols., trans. John M. Forrester with intro. John Henry Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
• 2014, Carcer, eds. Marialuisa Baldi, Guido Canziani, Eugenio Di Rienzo, Florence: Olschki.
• 2017, Il libro dei segreti, ed. Davide Giavina, Milan: Mimesis.
• 2019a, De consolatione, ed. Marialuisa Baldi, Florence: Olschki.
• 2019b, Le Livre de ma vie / De Vita propria, ed. and trans. Jean-Yves Boriaud, Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
• 2021a, Traité des songes. De somniis, ed. and trans. Jean-Yves Boriaud, Paris: Les Belles Lettres.
• 2021b, Sulla consolazione, trans. Marialuisa Baldi, Florence: Olschki.

Secondary Literature

Additional bibliographic information about studies on Cardano can be found in Schütze 1998.

• Baldi, Marialuisa and Guido Canziani (eds.), 1999. Girolamo Cardano: Le opere, le fonti, la vita, Milan: FrancoAngeli. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003, Cardano e la tradizione dei saperi, Milan: FrancoAngeli. (Scholar)
• Baldini, Ugo and Leen Spruit (eds.), 2009, Catholic Church and Modern Science: Documents from the Archives of the Roman Congregations of the Holy Office and the Index, Vol. I: Sixteenth-Century Documents, 2 volumes, Rome: Libreria Editrice Vaticana. (Scholar)
• Bianchi, Lorenzo, 2008, “Machiavelli e Cardano. Note su naturalismo e fortuna,” in Dopo Machiavelli / Après Machiavel, eds. Lorenzo Bianchi and Alberto Postigliola, Naples: Liguori, 53–74. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Inganni e impostura tra Cardano e Naudé,” in I castelli di Yale online, 1: 25–47. doi:10.15160/2282-5460/528 (Scholar)
• Boriaud, Jean-Yves (ed.), 2012, La pensée scientifique de Cardan, Paris: Les Belles Lettres. (Scholar)
• Casali, Elide, 2013, “Il Pronostico del 1534 di Girolamo Cardano. L’esemplare della Collezione Campi,” Bruniana & Campanelliana, 19(2): 571–575. (Scholar)
• Corrias, Anna, 2018, “When the Eyes Are Shut: The Strange Case of Girolamo Cardano’s Idolum in Somniorum Synesiorum Libri IIII,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 79: 179–197. (Scholar)
• Couzinet, Marie-Dominique, 2001, “La variété dans la philosophie de la nature: Cardan, Bodin,” in La varietas à la Renaissance, ed. Dominique de Courcelles, Paris: École des Chartes, 105–117. (Scholar)
• Di Rienzo, Eugenio, 1987, “Dal principato civile alla tirannide: Il Neronis encomium di Gerolamo Cardano,” Studi storici, 28: 157–82. (Scholar)
• Ernst, Germana, 2001, “Veritatis amor dulcissimus: Aspects of Cardano’s Astrology,” in Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, eds. William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 39–68. (Scholar)
• García Valverde, José Manuel, 2013, “Averroistic Themes in Girolamo Cardano’s De Immortalitate Animorum,” in Renaissance Averroism and Its Aftermath: Arabic Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, eds. Anna Akasoy and Guido Giglioni, Dordrecht: Springer, 145–71. (Scholar)
• Giglioni, Guido, 2005–2007, “Mens in Girolamo Cardano,” in Per una storia del concetto di mente, ed. Eugenio Canone, 2 volumes, Florence: Olschki, II: 83–122. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “‘Bolognan Boys Are Beautiful, Tasteful, and Mostly Fine Musicians’: Cardano on Male Same-Sex Love and Music,” in The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe, eds. Kenneth Borris and George Rousseau, New York: Routledge, 201–20. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, “Nature and Demons: Girolamo Cardano Interpreter of Pietro d’Abano,” in Continuities and Disruptions between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, eds. Charles Burnett, José Meirinhos, and Jacqueline Hamesse, Louvain-la Neuve: Brepols, 89–112. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “The Many Rhetorical Personae of an Early Modern Physician: Girolamo Cardano on Truth and Persuasion,” in Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe, eds. Stephen Pender and Nancy S. Struever, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 173–93. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Girolamo Cardano: University Student and Professor,” Renaissance Studies, 27(4): 517–532. (Scholar)
• –––, 2014, “Humans, Elephants, Diamonds and Gold: Patterns of Intentional Design in Girolamo Cardano’s Natural Philosophy,” Gesnerus, 71: 237–247. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, “Scaliger versus Cardano versus Scaliger,” in Forms of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe, eds. David A. Lines, Marc Laureys and Jill Kraye, Bonn: Bonn University Press, 109–130. (Scholar)
• Gliozzi, Giuliano, 1976, “Cardano, Gerolamo,” in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1960-, XIX, 758b–63b. (Scholar)
• Grafton, Anthony, 1999, Cardano’s Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer, Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Ingegno, Alfonso, 1980, Saggio sulla filosofia di Cardano, Florence: La Nuova Italia. (Scholar)
• Keßler, Eckhard (ed.), 1994, Girolamo Cardano: Philosoph, Naturforscher, Arzt, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. (Scholar)
• Maclean, Ian, 1984, “The Interpretation of Natural Signs: Cardano’s De subtilitate Versus Scaliger’s Exercitationes,” in Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance, ed. Brian Vickers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 231–52. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007, “Girolamo Cardano: the Last Years of a Polymath,” Renaissance Studies, 21: 587–607. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “Cardano’s Eclectic Psychology and its Critique by Julius Caesar Scaliger,” Vivarium, 46: 392–417. (Scholar)
• Marcus, Hannah, 2020, Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Martin, Craig, 2022, “Girolamo Cardano’s Meteorological Predictions: Hippocratism, Weather Signs, Winds, and the Limits of Astrology,” Perspectives on Science, 30(5): 851–873. (Scholar)
• Ore, Øystein, 1953, Cardano: The Gambling Scholar, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Pompeo Faracovi, Ornella, 2012, “Girolamo Cardano e il ritorno a Tolomeo,” Il linguaggio dei cieli. Astri e simboli nel Rinascimento, Roma: Carocci, 125–138. (Scholar)
• Prins, Jacomien, 2018, “Girolamo Cardano and Julius Caesar Scaliger in Debate about Nature’s Musical Secrets,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 8(2): 169–189. (Scholar)
• –––, 2022, “Cardano and Scaliger in Debate on the Revival of Ancient Music,” Journal of Musicology, 39: 109–132. (Scholar)
• Regier, Jonathan, 2019, “Reading Cardano with the Roman Inquisition: Astrology, Celestial Physics and the Force of Heresy,” Isis, 110: 661–679. (Scholar)
• –––, 2021, “A Hot Mess: Girolamo Cardano, the Inquisition and the Soul,” HOPOS, 11: 547–563. (Scholar)
• –––, 2023, “Shadows of the Thrown Spear: Girolamo Cardano on Anxiety, Dreams, and the Divine in Nature,” Early Science and Medicine, 28: 95–119. (Scholar)
• Sakamoto, Kuni, 2016, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism: A Study of His Exotericae Exercitationes, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Schütze, Ingo, 1998, “Bibliografia degli studi su Girolamo Cardano dal 1850 al 1995,” Bruniana & Campanelliana, 4(2): 449–467. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, Die Naturalphilosophie in Girolamo Cardanos De subtilitate, Munich: Fink. (Scholar)
• Siraisi, Nancy G., 1997, The Clock and the Mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance Medicine, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Valente, Michaela, 2003, “‘Correzioni d’autore’ e censure dell’opera di Cardano,” in Cardano e la tradizione dei saperi, eds. Baldi and Canziani, Milan: FrancoAngeli, 437–456. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “Facing the Roman Inquisition: Cardano and Della Porta,” Bruniana & Campanelliana, 23: 533–540. (Scholar)