[New Entry by Francesco Molinarolo on March 13, 2026.]
Giovanni Francesco [Gianfrancesco] Pico della Mirandola (1469 – 1533) was an important philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, nephew of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and a tenacious defender of Christianity. Influenced by the friar Girolamo Savonarola, he waged a battle against rational philosophy and against the authority of Aristotle in particular. Author of many works on various subjects, Gianfrancesco studied issues such as prophecy, the function of the imagination and divine love. His best-known work is the…