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===Death===
[[File:Angel Appearing to Zacharias (detail) - 1486-90.JPG|thumb|left|Angel Appearing to Zacharias (detail), by [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]], {{circa|1486–90}}, showing (l–r) [[Marsilio Ficino]], [[Cristoforo Landino]], [[Poliziano]] and [[Demetrios Chalkondyles]]]]
In 1494, at the age of 31, Pico died under mysterious circumstances along with his friend [[Poliziano]].<ref>Ben-Zaken, Avner, "Defying Authority, Rejecting Predestination and Conquering Nature", in [https://www.amazon.com/Reading-Hayy-Ibn-Yaqzan-Cross-Cultural-Autodidacticism/dp/0801897394/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1343310784&sr=8-3&keywords=avner+ben-zaken Reading Hayy Ibn-Yaqzan: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011), 65–101].</ref>
It was rumoured that his own secretary had poisoned him because Pico had become too close to Savonarola.<ref name="Lybereclatnetopcit" /> He was interred together with Girolamo Benivieni at San Marco, and Savonarola delivered the funeral oration. Ficino wrote: {{quote|Our dear Pico left us on the same day that Charles VIII was entering Florence, and the tears of men of letters compensated for the joy of the people. Without the light brought by the king of France, Florence might perhaps have never seen a more somber day than that which extinguished Mirandola's light.<ref name="Lybereclatnetopcit" />}}
In 2007, the bodies of Poliziano and Pico were exhumed from the [[San_Marco,_Florence|Church of San Marco]] in Florence to establish the causes of their deaths.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6920443.stm Medici writers exhumed in Italy]. BBC News, 28 February 2007. Accessed June 2013.</ref> Forensic tests showed that both Poliziano and Pico likely died of arsenic poisoning, possibly at the order of Lorenzo's successor, Piero de' Medici.<ref>Malcolm Moore (7 February 2008). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1577958/Medici-philosophers-mystery-death-is-solved.html "Medici philosopher's mysterious death is solved"] ''The Daily Telegraph''. London. Accessed June 2013.</ref>▼
▲In 2007, the bodies of Poliziano and Pico were exhumed from the [[San_Marco,_Florence|Church of San Marco]] in Florence to establish the causes of their deaths.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6920443.stm Medici writers exhumed in Italy]. BBC News, 28 February 2007. Accessed June 2013.</ref> Forensic tests showed that both Poliziano and Pico likely died of arsenic poisoning, possibly at the order of Lorenzo's successor, Piero de' Medici.<ref>Malcolm Moore (7 February 2008). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1577958/Medici-philosophers-mystery-death-is-solved.html "Medici philosopher's mysterious death is solved"] ''The Daily Telegraph''
==Writings==
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