Pico della Mirandola#Pico
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#Pico
Pico della Mirandola · 1463–1494
In the books · 1 chapter
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“At twenty-three he challenged all of Europe to debate nine hundred theses drawn from every tradition he could read — Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew — and the speech he wrote to open that debate is now called the Manifesto of the Renaissance.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Human beings have no fixed place in the order of creation — our dignity lies in the freedom to fashion ourselves, to sink toward the brute or climb toward the divine.”
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