An unpublished letter of Elijah del Medigo to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: "De nervis et sensu tactus"

In this Note, I provide a complete edition of an unpublished letter from the Jewish philosopher Elijah del Medigo to his pupil Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, written between 1482 and 1486. The edition is introduced by a philosophical commentary and an historical account of the background to the letter, which deals with the relationship between the sense of touch and the peripheral nervous system in Averroes’ interpretation of Aristotle, and with the chronology of Aristotle’s biological and psychological works. The letter should be taken into account in any future complete edition of Pico’s correspondence.