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; ...

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 ...

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.

A portrait of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, a Renaissance polymath and polyglot who read Greek and Latin alongside Hebrew and Arabic. Photograph Sepia Times/Universal Images Group/Getty Images .

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.