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| influences = [[Hermes Trismegistus]], [[Plato]], [[Aristotle]], [[Kabbalah]], [[Neoplatonism]], [[Chaldean Oracles]], [[Pseudo-Dionysius]], [[Nicholas of Cusa]], [[Marsilio Ficino]]
| influenced = [[John Colet]], [[Thomas Cajetan]], [[Erasmus]], [[Sir Thomas More]]
|education = [[University of Bologna]]
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'''Giovanni Pico della Mirandola''' ({{IPAc-en|US|ˈ|p|iː|k|oʊ|_|ˌ|d|ɛ|l|ə|_|m|ɪ|ˈ|r|æ|n|d|ə|l|ə|,_|-|ˈ|r|ɑː|n|-}},<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|Pico della Mirandola|access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Pico della Mirandola|access-date=1 June 2019}}</ref> {{IPA-it|dʒoˈvanni ˈpiːko della miˈrandola|lang}}; {{Lang-la|Johannes Picus de Mirandula}}; 24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494) was an [[Italian Renaissance]] nobleman and [[philosopher]].<ref>"Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, Conte" in ''Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge'', volume 15, copyright 1991. Grolier Inc., {{ISBN|0-7172-5300-7}}</ref> 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 (paranormal)|magic]] against all comers, for which he wrote the ''[[Oration on the Dignity of Man]]'', which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance",<ref>''Oration on the Dignity of Man'' (1486) [http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/pico.html wsu.edu] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104024142/http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/pico.html |date=4 January 2011 }}</ref> and a key text of [[Renaissance humanism]] and of what has been called the "Hermetic Reformation".<ref>Heiser, James D., ''Prisci Theologi and the Hermetic Reformation in the Fifteenth Century'', Malone, TX: Repristination Press, 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-4610-9382-4}}</ref> He was the founder of the tradition of [[Christian Kabbalah]], a key tenet of early modern [[Western esotericism]]. The ''900 Theses'' was the first printed book to be universally banned by the Church.<ref name="Hanegraaff p.54">Hanegraaff p. 54</ref> Pico is sometimes seen as a [[Proto-Protestantism|proto-Protestant]], because his 900 theses anticipated many Protestant views.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Philip Schaff: History of the Christian Church, Volume VI: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1294-1517 - Christian Classics Ethereal Library|url=https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/hcc6.all.html|access-date=2021-12-23|website=www.ccel.org}}</ref>
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A precocious child with an exceptional memory, Giovanni was schooled in Latin and possibly Greek at a very early age. Intended for the [[Catholic Church|Church]] by his mother, he was named a papal protonotary (probably honorary) at the age of 10 and in 1477, he went to Bologna to study [[canon law]].<ref name="Baird">{{cite web|url=http://www.whitworth.edu/core/classes/co250/Italy/Data/fr_pico.htm |title=Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) |last=Baird |first=Forrest |year=2000 |work=Philosophic Classics |publisher=Prentice Hall |access-date=2009-01-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202004135/http://www.whitworth.edu/Core/Classes/CO250/Italy/Data/fr_pico.htm |archive-date=2 December 2008 }}</ref>
At the sudden death of his mother three years later, Pico renounced canon law and began to study philosophy at the [[University of Ferrara]].<ref name="Baird"/> During a brief trip to Florence, he met [[Angelo Poliziano]], the [[courtly]] poet [[Girolamo Benivieni]], and probably the young Dominican friar [[Girolamo Savonarola]]. For the rest of his life he remained very close friends with all three.<ref name="bbcexhume">{{Cite news |title=Medici writers exhumed in Italy |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6920443.stm |access-date=2015-12-11 |periodical=[[BBC News]] |date=28 July 2007}}</ref> He may also have been a lover of Poliziano.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Death in Florence|last=Strathern|first=Paul|publisher=Jonathan Cape|year=2011|isbn=978-0224089784|location=London|pages=84}}</ref>
From 1480 to 1482, he continued his studies at the [[University of Padua]], a major center of [[Aristotelianism]] in Italy.<ref name="Baird"/> Already proficient in Latin and Greek, he studied Hebrew and Arabic in [[Padua]] with [[Elia del Medigo]], a Jewish [[Averroist]], and read Aramaic manuscripts with him as well. Del Medigo also translated [[Rabbinic literature|Judaic manuscripts]] from Hebrew into Latin for Pico, as he would continue to do for a number of years. Pico also wrote [[sonnet]]s in Latin and Italian which, because of the influence of Savonarola, he destroyed at the end of his life.{{cn|date=September 2022}}
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