Meet Pico, The 23-Year-Old Wunderkind Who Kicked Off the Renaissance

Published: May 8, 2018, 7:47 a.m.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Pico for short), was the wunderkind of the Renaissance. In 1486, at the age of 23 he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy,\xa0natural philosophy, and\xa0magic\xa0against all comers, for which he wrote the\xa0Oration...