The Renaissance:

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The Renaissance

• Featuring influence from Pico della Mirandola

By President Christian Cooper
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What was the Significance of The Renaissance?

• The Renaissance was a rebirth in society! During
  this time period, society started to modernize
  and focus on the classics. There were technically
  two types of The Renaissance Northern and
  Italian. Society ways of thinking changed
  during this time period through the four isms
  Humanism, Individualism, Secularism, and
  Scientific Naturalism. Each one lead to changes
  in lifestyle for everyone and increased the
  effort to go against the Church.

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Pico della Mirandola

• Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Renaissance
  philosopher who was born in 1463. Mirandola grew
  up in Modena, where his family had significant
  power in the Duchy of Modena. Throughout his
  life, Mirandola wrote numerous significant
  writings, such as Oratio de hominis dignitate
  (Oration on the Dignity of Man, 1486) and De
  animae immortalitate (1541). Both of these
  incorporated ideas of humanists thoughts
  individual achievement. In 1494, Mirandola was
  poisoned by an unknown person and died because of
  that.

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Works of Mirandola
Mirandolas Commentary on a Canzone of Benivieni
Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
Excerpt from Oration on the Dignity of Man
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Analysis of His Works

• In all of his works, Mirandola incorporated
  numerous accounts of the four isms, especially
  with humanism (liberal arts studies) and
  secularism (less spiritual). For example, in
  Mirandolas Oration on the Dignity of Man,
  humanism was shown by describing in the piece
  that there should be an importance in a humans
  quest of knowledge. Also in this work, he seemed
  to show an understanding of physics, which would
  go along with scientific naturalism(study of the
  natural world). In Mirandola's De animae
  immortalitate, he uses the idea of secularism by
  saying a mans possession of an immortal soul
  freed him from the hierarchical stasis, which
  describes how less spiritual society would end up
  being. Mirandolas works are greatly known due to
  the uses of the four isms.

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Spirit of The Renaissance

• Pico della Mirandolas work does illustrate the
  spirit of the Renaissance in numerous ways. The
  renaissance was a rebirth in society in which
  modernization occurred. Mirandola wrote about
  knowledge and education, and that humans need
  more knowledge, and in the Renaissance there was
  a desire for education and learning. He would
  also write about astrology and greek mythology,
  which goes along with the idea of humanism.