Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Giovanni Pico della Mirandolawas an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy, and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man, which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance", and a key text of Renaissance humanism and of what has been called the "Hermetic Reformation"...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth24 February 1463
CountryItaly