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Pico della Mirandola Count Giovanni . 1463--94, Italian Platonist philosopher. His attempt to reconcile the ideas of classical, Christian, and Arabic writers in a collection of 900 theses, prefaced by his Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486), was condemned by the pope How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Sheila Rabin presents a subtle argument that although Pico della Mirandola accepted natural or "true astrology" in the 900 Theses, in his later Disputations he no longer made distinctions between judicial astrology--which he had always rejected--and natural astrology. Palladio provided practical information on building all'antica, but it was the intellectual framework provided by the Neoplatonic writings of Pico della Mirandola, Agrippa and Giordano Bruno, which had a profound influence during the sixteenth century in England on the polymath John Dee, Henry Wotton (author of The Elements of Architecture) and William Laud (as Bishop of St Paul's in London). Les Humanistes, pionniers de la rencontre des religions," by Ries, surveys contributions of Nicholas of Cusa, Marsilio Ficino, and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola to ecumenical approaches to religion in a way that is useful to the theme but offers nothing to the specialist. |
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