Oration on the Dignity of Man

by Mirandola, Giovanni Pico Della

• ISBN13: 9780895267139
• ISBN10: 0895267136
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781596983014
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780895269256, 9781582435435
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: Gateway Books
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Summary

An ardent treatise for the Dignity of Man, which elevates Humanism to a truly Christian level, making this writing as pertinent today as it was in the Fifteenth Century.

Author Biography

Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈpiko della miˈrandola]; 24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the famous Oration on the Dignity of Man, which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance", and a key text of Renaissance humanism and of what has been called the “Hermetic Reformation."

Table of Contents

Translator's Note	vii	(4)
Introduction	xi
Oration on the Dignity of Man	1	(69)
Notes	70