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Giovanni's maternal family was singularly distinguished in the arts and scholarship of the [[Italian Renaissance]]. His cousin and contemporary was the poet Matteo Maria Boiardo, who grew up under the influence of his own uncle, the Florentine [[Gaius Maecenas|patron of the arts]] and scholar-poet [[Tito Vespasiano Strozzi]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.geocities.com/autorbis/boiardolife.html|title= Trionfi.com|access-date= 2008-03-09|work= Boiardo's Life: Time Table|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806060236/http://geocities.com/autorbis/boiardolife.html|archive-date=6 August 2009}}</ref>
 
Giovanni had a paradoxical relationship with his nephew [[GianfrancescoGiovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola]], who was a great admirer of his uncle, yet published ''Examen vanitatis doctrinae gentium'' (1520) in opposition to the "ancient wisdom narrative" espoused by Giovanni, described by historian Charles B. Schmitt as an attempt "to destroy what his uncle had built."<ref>Hanegraff p. 80</ref>
 
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