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The Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, most elegantly written by Gianfrancesco, son of the illustrious Prince Galeotto Pico.
Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola (1469–1533) was the nephew of Giovanni Pico and a significant philosopher in his own right.
Heptaplus: On the Sevenfold Narration of the Six Days of Genesis.
original: Heptaplus de opere Sex dierum geneseos. This is Pico's famous mystical and neoplatonic commentary on the creation story.
A Prayer of Entreaty to God in elegiac verse.
An Apology concerning thirteen questions.
This refers to the Apologia, Pico's defense against the charges of heresy brought by the Church regarding thirteen of his "900 Conclusions."
A Treatise on Being and the One, with certain objections and responses.
original: De ente et uno. A work attempting to reconcile the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.
A most elegant Oration.
Now famously known as the Oration on the Dignity of Man, originally intended as the introductory speech for his public debate in Rome.
Numerous Letters of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
Testimonies concerning his life and teaching.
Twelve books of Disputations against Astrologers.
original: Disputationum aduersus Astrologos. An influential critique of judicial astrology which argued for human free will against celestial determinism.
A poem on the wood of the cross by Caecilius Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage.
| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | Filippo Beroaldo |
| Gianfrancesco Pico, son of Count Galeotto | Battista Guarino |
| Ermolao Barbaro | Cristoforo Landino |
| Angelo Poliziano Also known as Politian, the renowned poet and tutor to the Medici family. | Alessandro Cortesi |
| Brother Battista the Carmelite Likely the poet Battista Mantovano. | Bartolomeo Fonte |
| Matteo Bosso of Verona | Marsilio Ficino The central figure of the Florentine Platonic Academy. |
| Girolamo Donà | Baccio Ugolini |
| Roberto Salviati | Giuliano Maio of Naples |