Mirandola – Renaissance prodigy and polymath
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, painted by Rubens
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The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language in Renaissance Italy EDWARD WILSON-LEE
As Wilson-Lee writes, this was the day when “the Wise Men had knelt down to the infant Jesus, submitting all foreign knowledge to the supremacy of God’s truth”. Pico’s aim was thus to reconcile Aristotle’s unrivalled description of the world and Plato’s universal vision, thereby bringing to an end – Wilson-Lee continues – “a battle that had been running for much longer than the Roman street brawls and was scarcely less vicious”.
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