Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Italian Renaissance philosopher

1463 CE to 1494 CE

Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February 24, 1463 –November 17, 1494) is an Italian Renaissance philosopher.

He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of twenty-three, he proposes to defend nine huindred theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy, and magic against all comers, for which he writes the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man, a key text of Renaissance humanism.

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