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Jan 28, 2025

What Pico Thought—and What It Wrought


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Esmé L. K. Partridge

Esmé L. K. Partridge is an MPhil student in the Philosophy of Religion at Clare College, University of Cambridge.

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What Pico Thought—and What It Wrought

Reflections on Pico della Mirandola’s “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

“The legacy of the European Renaissance, it could be said, is one of contradiction. We often think of it as the cradle of the modern world, and yet those behind it were principally concerned with the rediscovery of the ancient one.” —Esmé L. K. Partridge

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