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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Pico della Mirandola

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

A visit from the young Pico della Mirandola cheered his last hours.

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, 1463-1494, published 900 theses at Rome in defence of Platonic mysticism.

From Michelangelo A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

It was likewise from a Florentine Jew, Alemanus or Datylus, that Pico della Mirandola, the fifteenth-century mystic, received instructions in the Cabala244 and imagined that he had discovered in it the doctrines of Christianity.

From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.