Encyclopedia - 1493: Encyclopedia - 1493
1493 - Events. January 4 - Christopher Columbus leaves the New World. March 15 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: Encyclopedia Ii - Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola - Biography
Pico was a younger son of the family of the Counts of Mirandola and Concordia, feudal lords of a small region in the province of Emilia-R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola: Encyclopedia Ii - Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola - Writings
In the Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486), Pico justifies the importance of the human quest for knowledge within a neo-Platonic framewo...   » Read the article