Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher and author (born 1463)

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Italian Renaissance philosopher (1463–1494)

Giovanni Pico dei conti della Mirandola e della Concordia, known as Pico della Mirandola, was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when, at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural…