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

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

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

'''Giovanni Pico della Mirandola''' (1463-1494) [[Italian]] [[polymath]]. He is considered the most influential [[The Renaissance|Renaissance]] Neo-Platonist. Pico also is one of the first thinkers to consider the hallmark of being human, the capacity of ''freedom''. 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]

::: ''I have read in the records of the Arabians, reverend Fathers, that Abdala the Saracen, when questioned as to what on this stage of the world, as it were, could be seen most worthy of wonder, replied: "There is nothing to be seen more wonderful than man." In agreement with this opinion is the saying of Hermes Trismegistus: "A great miracle, Asclepius, is man."'' [http://www.whitworth.edu/Core/Classes/CO250/Readings/pico.htm Oration on the Dignity of Man]

::: ''I have read in the records of the Arabians, reverend Fathers, that Abdala the Saracen, when questioned as to what on this stage of the world, as it were, could be seen most worthy of wonder, replied: "There is nothing to be seen more wonderful than man." In agreement with this opinion is the saying of Hermes Trismegistus: "A great miracle, Asclepius, is man."'' [http://www.whitworth.edu/Core/Classes/CO250/Readings/pico.htm Oration on the Dignity of Man]