Pico della Mirandola

[pee-koh del-uh muh-ran-dl-uh; It. pee-kaw del-lah mee-rahn-daw-lah]

Pi·co del·la Mi·ran·do·la

[pee-koh del-uh muh-ran-dl-uh; It. pee-kaw del-lah mee-rahn-daw-lah]
noun
Count Gio·van·ni [jaw-vahn-nee] , 1463–94, Italian humanist and writer.
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Pico della Mirandola (Italian ˈpiːko ˌdɛlla miˈrandola)
 
n
Count Giovanni (dʒoˈvanni). 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

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