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

We meet a cast of characters, each with the ringing verisimilitude of well-researched, real historical personages from the heretical Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola to the statesman Lorenzo de' Medici and various clergy, peasants, nuns and friars of feuding orders.

From Los Angeles Times

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola came from aristocratic stock: the Pico dynasty ruled Mirandola, a tiny northern Italian principality, from a fortified castle that still bears the family name.

From The New Yorker

“Do you think that I have the same memory as Pico della Mirandola’s?” the former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano huffed in exasperation in a Palermo appeals court late last year, when he was being grilled over events from two decades before.

From The New Yorker

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

From Time