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Anagnine, E.G. - Pico della Marandola. Bari 1937.
Garin, E. - Florence 1937.

Giovani Pico was born into a noble family in Mirandola
in 1463. He studied law + philosophy at Bologna, Ferrara +,
from 1480-82, Padua. Expert in Greek + Latin, he learned
Hebrew + Arabic at Perugia, where he also became interested in
the Jewish cabala. By 1486 he had composed the 900 theses which
led to charges against his orthodoxy. Pico fled to France to evade
capture, but was nevertheless arrested in 1488. He was released
owing to the intervention of several Italian princes + he then returned
to Florence where he enjoyed the protection of the Medici. There,
until his death in 1494, he made a brilliant addition to the learned
circle that had gathered around Ficino. Pico composed poems,
letters, commentaries + a number of original philosophical tracts.
Aside from this 900 theses + the famous Oratio, he is well
knwon for Heptaplus + De ente et uno.
Pico della Mirandola + his contemporary Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499)
signify the turn from Aristotle to Plato that characterizes the philosophical
outlook of the foremost thinkers of the Italian Renaissance.

Reprinted from the ed. of Benedictus Hectoris, Bologna
1495-6 (Hoin 12992) in which however the Deprecatoria
comes after the Epistolae + the preliminary matter to
the Diaputationes is prefixed, not appended, to that
work.
Type 111R light text type, separate 2 in 2 forms, one
c longer, the other c shorter dropped tail, irregular wide
S, wide e, i dotted lightly + high up, + mostly c long
serif, large9. In was 1498-1500.
85G text type low style c double limbed capitals
+ Dr. Haebler's M88. This type was apparently
1st used in 1496 by De Bottis (Cremonersis) the early
partner of Bernardinus + is found in the latter's
hands in + after 1498.