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[[Image:Pico Della Mirandola.jpg|thumb|Copy of an unknown original, Uffizi, Gioviana Collection, ca. 1491.]]

[[Image:Pico Della Mirandola.jpg|thumb|Copy of an unknown original, Uffizi, Gioviana Collection, ca. 1491.]]

'''Giovanni Pico della Mirandola''' (1463-1494) was an [[Italian]] [[polymath]]. He is considered the most influential [[The Renaissance|Renaissance]] Neo-Platonist. Pico also is one of the first thinkers to consider the capacity of ''freedom'' to be hallmark of being human. He developed a [[philosophy]] known as ''syncretism''.

'''Giovanni Pico della Mirandola''' (1463–1494) was an [[Italian]] [[polymath]]. He is considered the most influential [[The Renaissance|Renaissance]] Neo-Platonist. Pico also is one of the first thinkers to consider the capacity of ''freedom'' to be hallmark of being human. He developed a [[philosophy]] known as ''syncretism''.

''In 1486 Pico drew up a list of nine hundred true theses (or propositions), using various [[Greek]], [[Arabic]], [[Hebrew]], and [[Roman]] thinkers who summarized his views. He invited scholars from all over Europe to come to Rome, where he would defend his positions against all challengers. '' [http://www.whitworth.edu/Core/Classes/CO250/Italy/Data/fr_pico.htm]

''In 1486 Pico drew up a list of nine hundred true theses (or propositions), using various [[Greek]], [[Arabic]], [[Hebrew]], and [[Roman]] thinkers who summarized his views. He invited scholars from all over Europe to come to Rome, where he would defend his positions against all challengers. '' [http://www.whitworth.edu/Core/Classes/CO250/Italy/Data/fr_pico.htm]