Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Giovanni Pico, count of Mirandola and Concordia, or Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (PEE-coh DAYL-lah mee-RAHN-doh-lah), was born February 24, 1463, in the castle of Mirandola, near Ferrara, Italy. He died at the age of thirty-one on November 17, 1494, at Fiesole in Tuscany, Italy. A deeply religious man, yet one who did not want to bow before the authority of the church and its dogma, Pico explored various paths of speculative philosophy. He was a Christian humanist, and as much as anyone he gave to the humanist movement the doctrine that humankind, under God, was at the center of...
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