Note 135 — SECOND DISCOURSE
A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson translation
P. 254:
◆Pico della Mirandola, Opera omnia, t. II., liv. III., chap. xxii., in the 1517 edition.
◆Pico della Mirandola, one of the greatest of all the brilliant scholars of the Renaissance, and so famous for the precocity and versatility of his talents, was born 1463. After completing his studies at Bologna and elsewhere, he visited Rome, where he publicly exhibited a hundred propositions De omni re scribili, which he undertook to defend against all comers. The maturity of his powers he devoted to the study of religion and the Platonic philosophy. He died 1494, on the day of Charles VIII.’s entry into Florence.