He was just thirty-one. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola came from aristocratic stock: the Pico dynasty ruled Mirandola, a tiny northern Italian principality, from a fortified castle that still bears ...

Mellon Foundation. The grant will fund the organization of a seminar—to be hosted virtually at RIT in spring 2022—on the legacy of Italian Renaissance thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola in terms of ...

Scientists want to learn more about their lives and find out what caused their deaths. Pico della Mirandola, a humanist philosopher, and the scholar and poet Angelo Ambrosini, known as Poliziano, both ...

Ever since Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, a mystical and mercurial philosopher at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici, suddenly became sick and died in 1494, it has been rumoured that foul play was ...

If he ever heard the saying, the Italian scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola roundly ignored it, spending his life rooting out the secrets of old books and turning ancient wisdom into modern ...