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Pico della Mirandola

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Pi·co del·la Mi·ran·do·la  (pk dl m-rnd-l, dllä m-ränd-lä), Count Giovanni 1463-1494.
Italian Neo-Platonist philosopher and humanist famous for his 900 theses on a variety of scholarly subjects (1486).
Pico della Mirandola (Italian) [ˈpiːko ˌdɛlla miˈrandola]
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(Biographies / Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (1463-1494) M, Italian, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) 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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Among many authorities and examples in the Papel de la nueva poesia, Lope cites Pico della Mirandola along with Hermolao Barbaro (Filomena 312), Poliziano (Filomena 317) and Pietro Crinito (Filomena 318).
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Bruce Gordon's chapter on "The Renaissance angel" provides something of an overview of fifteenth-century attitudes towards angels through examining the writings of three major intellectual figures: Nicholas Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, and Pico della Mirandola.
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Renowned scientists and philosophers the world over, including Newton, Leibniz, and Pico Della Mirandola investigated the wisdom of Kabbalah and attempted to understand it.
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