Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man
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Description: A brief excerpt from Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man.
Pico della Mirandola, "Oration on the Dignity of Man" Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) in his youth visited the chief Italian and French universities. In 1486 he issued a challenge to all comers to debate on any of nine hundred theses at Rome, but the debate was forbidden by the pope on the score of the heretical tendency of some of these theses, and Pico suffered persecution until Alexander VI in 1493 absolved him from heresy. He was the last of the Schoolmen and his works are a bewildering compound of mysticism and recondite knowledge. A humanist as well as a theologian, he wrote various Latin epistles and elegies and a series of sonnets. His philosophical writings include
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