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	Giovanni Pico della Mirandola - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February 24, 1463 – November 17, 1494) was an Italian Renaissance humanist philosopher and scholar.
		The Oration also served as an introduction to Pico's 900 theses, which he believed to provide a complete and sufficient basis for the discovery of all knowledge, and hence a model for mankind's ascent of the chain of being.
		Pico in English: A Bibliography, the works of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), with a List of Studies and Commentaries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giovanni_Pico_della_Mirandola (1060 words)

	Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Conte Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, 1463 - 1494
		Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was an Italian philosopher, scholar, Neoplatonist, and humanist whose aim was to conciliate religion and philosophy.
		Pico had a massive intellect and literally studied everything there was to be studied in the university curriculum of the Renaissance; the Oration in part is meant to be a preface to a massive compendium of all the intellectual achievements of humanity--a compendium that never appeared because of his early death.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Pico.html (208 words)

	GIOVANNI, COUNT PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA - LoveToKnow Article on GIOVANNI, COUNT PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pico was the first to seek in the Kabbalah a proof of the Christian mysteries and it was by him that Reuchlin was led into the same delusive path.
		Pico had been up to this time a gay Italian nobleman.; he was tall, handsome, fair-complexioned, with keen grey eyes and yellow hair, and a great favorite with women.
		Picos works cannot now be read with much interest, but the man himself is still interesting, partly from his influence on Reuchlin and partly from the spectacle of a truly devout mind in the brilliant circle of half-pagan scholars of the Florentine renaissance.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PI/PICO_DELLA_MIRANDOLA_GIOVANNI_COUNT.htm (625 words)

	Zenit Studi - Pico della Mirandola e la cabala cristiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Se a più di un titolo Pico della Mirandola merita di rimanere l’eroe della cabala cristiana, in verità si capirebbe male l’apparizione della cabala in ambiente umanista e la sua evoluzione senza tener conto della famosa dichiarazione di Pico e dell’ambiente in cui egli stesso sviluppò il suo pensiero.
		L’espressione «Torah scebealpe», che troviamo in loro, significa legge della bocca che, essendo ricevuta in eredità, si chiama cabala.
		Pico della Mirandola riprendeva qui i termini dell’Oratio, che doveva pronunciare all’apertura della discussione delle sue 900 tesi, e ritorneremo su questi 70 libri che credette aver ritrovati, acquistando dei manoscritti di cabala.
	www.zen-it.com /ermes/studi/Pico.htm (2023 words)

	Pico della Mirandola
		Pico himself had a massive intellect and literally studied everything there was to be studied in the university curriculum of the Renaissance; the "Oration" in part is meant to be a preface to a massive compendium of all the intellectual achievements of humanity, a compendium that never appeared because of Pico's early death.
		Pico's basic approach to the problem of the one and the many was to argue that the many things of the universe, rather than being created by God or emanating from God or being unrelated to God, argued that they are all symbols of God.
		Pico, however, is arguing that the principle virtue of humanity is that they are always and ever will be free to be whatever they want and express the divine in whatever way they can.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/REN/PICO.HTM (1930 words)

	GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (February_24, 1463 – November_17, 1494) was an Italian_Renaissance humanist philosopher and scholar.
		He writes that after God had created all creatures, he conceived of the desire for another, sentient being who would appreciate all his works, but there was no longer any room in the chain_of_being; all the possible slots from angels to worms had been filled.
		The Pico Project at the University_of_Bologna and Brown_University is a project to make accessible a complete resource for the reading and interpretation of the ''Dignity of Man''.
	www.witwib.com /Giovanni_Pico_della_Mirandola (1061 words)

	Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Esoteric and Occult: Personalities: Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni
		Pico della Mirandola · cached · A brief introduction to the life and thought of the most influential Renaissance Neo-Platonist, Pico della Mirandola.
		Pico: Of Being and Unity · cached · Philosophical dissertation of Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
		Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man · cached · A brief excerpt from Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=303525 (261 words)

	AllRefer.com - Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Conte (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Conte[jOvAn´nE kOn´tA pE´kO del´lA mErAn´dOlA] Pronunciation Key, 1463–94, Italian philosopher and humanist.
		To many in the age of the Renaissance, Pico was the ideal man, whose physical beauty reflected his inner harmony.
		Although attacked by the church, Pico's theses were an important symbol of the Renaissance blending of Christian and Greek ideas.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Picodell.html (349 words)

	Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Conte Biography / Biography of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Conte Biography Biography
		The Italian philosopher and humanist Conte Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) was a brilliant exemplar of the Renaissance ideal of man.
		Pico's ambition, which many critics attribute to youthful confusion, can be measured by his plan to harmonize Plato and Aristotle and to link their philosophies with revelations proclaimed by the major religions.
		Pico gradually renounced Medicean splendor, embraced the piety of the reforming friar Girolamo Savonarola, and began writing in defense of the Church.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-pico-della-mirandola-conte/index.html (642 words)

	Pico Project \| MetaFilter
		The "Discourse on the Dignity of Man" (1486) by Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) is considered the "Manifesto of the Renaissance" and a key text of Renaissance Humanism.
		Pico knew neither the Reformation nor the New World and was in a certain sense a man with one foot in the Middle Ages and the other in the Renaissance.
		Pico was to found dressed in monastic garb and a devout follower of Savonarola.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/39762 (582 words)

	Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: Humanist or scholastic
		Pico’s modern interpreters can be accused of reading the first section out of the context of the entire work as they fail to see Pico’s praise of humankind’s intellectual ability as a justification for his subsequent reflection on the unity of all philosophic knowledge.
		After all, if Pico was only a step along the way, it was reasonable to assume that traces of an older cast of thought still would be present in his writings.
		Pico’s concerns seem other than developing a logically sound philosophy, but rather an appreciation of different systems of philosophy and theology that comes out of aesthetic concerns.
	www.angelfire.com /blog/rgrydns/Writing/giovanni.htm (1389 words)

	Giovanni Pico
		Insigne filosofo e umanista, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola nacque a Mirandola il 24 febbraio 1463 e morì a Firenze il 17 novembre 1494.
		Pico non si arrende e risponde in modo risentito con una Apologia, finché sopravviene un Breve papale di condanna.
		I contatti con i dotti ebrei fiorentini danno modo a Pico di approfondire gli studi delle lingue orientali e della Cabbala, e di questi egli si vale per la composizione dell'Heptaplus, una libera interpretazione dei sensi riposti nel Libro della Genesi, che può essere considerato la Cosmologia di Pico.
	www.comune.mirandola.mo.it /Citta/Storia/Giovanni/giovanni_pico.htm (463 words)

	Pico della Mirandola as a polyglot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Much of the learning which it displayed was certainly of a very idle and puerile character; much of it, too, was the merest pedantry; but nevertheless it is undeniable that the nine hundred propositions of which it consisted, comprised every department of knowledge cultivated at that period.
		And it is impossible to doubt that, if Pico's career had been prolonged to the usual term of human life, his reputation would have equalled that of the greatest scholars, whether of the ancient or the contemporary world.
		It is not unnatural to suppose that this circumstance, as well as the rank of Pico, and the singular precocity of his talents, may have led to a false or exaggerated estimate of his acquirements.
	www.how-to-learn-any-language.com /e/polyglots/pico-della-mirandola.html (481 words)

	Pico della Mirandola, "Oration on the Dignity of Man"
		Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man
		Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) in his youth visited the chief Italian and French universities.
		In 1486 he issued a challenge to all comers to debate on any of nine hundred theses at Rome, but the debate was forbidden by the pope on the score of the heretical tendency of some of these theses, and Pico suffered persecution until Alexander VI in 1493 absolved him from heresy.
	www.historyguide.org /intellect/pico.html (790 words)

	Extra credit - Pico della Mirandola
		Pico was interested in Greek philosophy (although his background was in law) and his interest revived Plato's philosophy.
		Pico was also interested in mystical works such as "Cabala." Pico believed magic and rhetoric were inseparable in that they both were used to shape different realities.
		Pico also noticed that humans use language to order the world, which is why I like this theorist the most.
	hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/battias/get/cs327/s02/ird/92.html (142 words)

	Mystical Encounters
		Christian Kabbalism began in the 15th century with the Italian humanist Pico della Mirandola, who was captivated by the secrets of Kabbalah and intrigued by the possibility of using them to demonstrate the truths of Christianity.
		Pico, an intellectual prodigy who died at the age of 31, accepted the claims of Jewish mystics that Kabbalah represented an unbroken oral tradition originally revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai.
		Pico's idea of validating Christian doctrine with ancient Jewish mysticism was daring, but it was also a logical extension of traditional belief.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1996/03.14/MysticalEncount.html (1237 words)

	Encyclopedia: Pico della Mirandola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		An important element in private and civic life during the Renaissance, which was also reflected in the scholarship of the period, was the cultural movement and philosophy known as Humanism.
		Girolamo Savonarola by Fra Bartolomeo, ca 1498 Girolamo Savonarola (September 21, 1452–May 23, 1498), also translated as Jerome Savonarola or Hieronymous Savonarola, was a Dominican priest and, briefly, ruler of Florence, who was known for religious reformation and anti-Renaissance preaching and his book burning and destruction of art.
		Syncretism is the attempt to reconcile disparate, even opposing, beliefs and to meld practices of various schools of thought.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pico-della-Mirandola (1796 words)

	Pico in English: A Bibliography of the Works of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
		Novak, B. “Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Jochanan Alemanno,” Journal of the Warburg and Coutauld Institutes 45 (1982), 125-47.
		“Pico della Mirandola’s Praise of Lorenzo (and Critique of Dante and Petrarch),” Neophilologus 54 (1970), 123-6.
		Yates, Frances A. “The Occult Philosophy in the Italian Renaissance: Pico della Mirandola,” chapter II of The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), 17-22.
	www.mvdougherty.com /pico.htm (3766 words)

	Pico de la Mirándola
		Después de salir de la cárcel, pico cambió sensiblemente de actitud, Quemó todos sus libros y ensayos, y se dedicó a viajar y a defender la posición ortodoxa del catolicismo.
		Y la intención de Pico era apaciguar a los belicosos enemigos, que pululaban tras las faldas de la iglesia.
		Pico no recobró la chispa de la originalidad que lo caracterizó en su juventud: Y nosotros perdimos algunos ensayos interesantes, que podríamos haber disfrutado.
	www.rcadena.net /Pico.htm (1964 words)

	Pico della Mirandola - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, The Dignity of Man
		Pico della Mirandola - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, The Dignity of Man
		Pico della Mirandola belonged to a family that had long dwelt in the Castle of Mirandola (Duchy of Modena), which had become independent in the fourteenth century and had received in 1414 from the Emperor Sigismund the fief of Concordia.
		To devote himself wholly to study, Pico left his share of the ancestral principality to his two brothers, and in his fourteenth year went to Bologna to study canon law and fit himself for the ecclesiastical career.
	www.picodellamirandola.com (262 words)

	J.R. Ritman Library - Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
		Pico (1463-1494) was the first humanist to present the Kabbalah to his Christian contemporaries – the very word was until then unknown.
		Pico claimed that magic and Kabbalah were the two instruments best fitted to prove the divinity of Christ: 'Nulla est scientia, quae nos magis certificet de divinitate Christi, quam magia et cabala'.
		Pico also used or mentioned Kabbalistic doctrines in other of his works, notably the Oratione de Dignitate Hominis and the Heptaplus (his exposition of the first lines of Genesis).
	www.ritmanlibrary.nl /c/p/exh/kabb/kab_pceb_01.html (248 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Religion and Spirituality: Esoteric and Occult: Personalities: Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pico della Mirandola - A brief introduction to the life and thought of the most influential Renaissance Neo-Platonist, Pico della Mirandola.
		Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man - A brief excerpt from Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man.
		Pico: Of Being and Unity - Philosophical dissertation of Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
	dmoz.org /Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Esoteric_and_Occult/Personalities/Pico_della_Mirandola,_Giovanni (218 words)

	Pico della Mirandola, 900 Theses
		(Pico had literally 'cosmic ambitions': in his letters and early texts, he hinted that debate of the 900 theses, which was the first printed book banned by the Church, might trigger Christ's Second Coming; see pp.
		This famous title was not Pico's and badly misrepresents the nature of his text, which provides a formal defense of philosophy meant to open his debate.
		Pico and Renaissance Magic (overturns Frances Yates's famous model of the origins of Renaissance magic in Pico and Ficino; Pico again emerges as Ficino's adversary, not as his 'disciple'; 3.5 meg pdf)
	www.safarmer.com /pico (1361 words)

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		END QUOTE Pico appears to be referring to the Adam Kadmon, dividing the parts of the body into three, that is, the upper three sefirot, the middle three, and the lower three, with the bottom, Malkhut, comprising all of the above.
		Pico quotes John the Divine, noting that the Son is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
		Pico, I think, meant by his statement, like Hutchinson centuries after him, that his personal experience with the divine light guided him toward knowledge of God that confirmed his previous experiences with Christ.
	www.digital-brilliance.com /kab/chriskab.txt (9373 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
		He belonged to a family that had long dwelt in the Castle of Mirandola (Duchy of Modena), which had become independent in the fourteenth century and had received in 1414 from the Emperor Sigismund the fief of Concordia.
		Like his teacher, Marsilius Ficinus, he based his views chiefly on Plato, in opposition to Aristotle the doctor of scholasticism at its decline.
		Innocent VIII was made to believe that at least thirteen of these theses were heretical, though in reality they merely revealed the shallowness of the learning of that epoch.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/10352a.htm (688 words)

	Pico della Mirandola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Even if it is generally admitted that the enormous kabbalistic anthology prepared for Pico in 1486 by the converted Jew Flavius Mithridates represents a precious heritage of European culture, what it really preserves and how it is structured still remain unsettled questions.
		In a joint project, the Institut für Judaistik of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (Firenze) intend to bring to light the real contents of this central undertaking of the Renaissance and to analyze its broad cultural significance.
		At the same time, the aim is to analyze the use Pico made of such texts in his works as well as the influence that these kabbalistic translations had on the later development of Christian kabbalah.
	userpage.fu-berlin.de /~jewstud/mirandola.html (588 words)

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