Luke Slattery writes about the death of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, a Renaissance philosopher who, some think, was murdered by the Medicis in 1494. Skip to main content. Newsletter; ...

Silvia Benso and Brian Schroeder, professors in the Department of Philosophy, have received a grant from the Central New York Humanities Corridor through an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

After 500 years, one of Renaissance Italy's most enduring murder mysteries has been solved by forensic scientists. Ever since Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, a mystical and mercurial philosopher at ...

A superbly written account of Renaissance controversies, focusing on Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the power of language to transport us.

Pico della Mirandola, a humanist philosopher, and the scholar and poet Angelo Ambrosini, known as Poliziano, both died in Florence in 1494. They belonged to the court of the powerful Medici family.