Pico della Mirandola

American  

[pee-koh del-uh muh-ran-dl-uh, pee-kaw del-lah mee-rahn-daw-lah] / ˈpi koʊ ˌdɛl ə məˈræn dl ə, ˈpi kɔ ˌdɛl lɑ miˈrɑn dɔˌlɑ /

noun

1. Count Giovanni 1463–94, Italian humanist and writer.

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Pico della Mirandola British  

/ ˈpiːko ˌdɛlla miˈrandola /

noun

1. Count Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). 1463–94, Italian Platonist philosopher. His attempt to reconcile the ideas of classical, Christian, and Arabic writers in a collection of 900 theses, prefaced by his Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486), was condemned by the pope

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Example Sentences

In his book "The Light in Troy," literary scholar Thomas Greene points to a 1513 letter written by poet Pietro Bembo to Giovanfrancesco Pico della Mirandola.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2022

The 15th Century also had mystics such as Margery Kempe and pioneering humanist philosophers such as Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.

From Time • Jun. 17, 2015

More's expression of theory was elicited by Tyndale's translation of the Bible; of the technical difficulties involved in his own translation of The Life of Pico della Mirandola he says nothing.

From Early Theories of Translation by Amos, Flora Ross

He drew partly on Plato, on Tacitus's Germania, on Augustine and on Pico della Mirandola, and for the outward framework of his book on the Four Voyages of Americus Vespuccius.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

There are some picturesque bits of old fourteenth century frescoes on the left wall, and beneath them, between the second and third altars, lie Pico della Mirandola and his friend Girolamo Benivieni, and Angelo Poliziano.

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.