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Pico della Mirandola

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

noun

  1. Count Gio·van·ni [jaw-, vahn, -nee], 1463–94, Italian humanist and writer.


Pico della Mirandola

/ ˈpiːko ˌdɛlla miˈrandola /

noun

  1. Pico della MirandolaGiovanni14631494MItalianPHILOSOPHY: philosopher 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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