Named by the Romans for Flora, goddess of spring flower, the Tuscan capital lying low in the Arno valley was at the height of its great cultural efflorescence. Brunelleschi’s dome of Santa Maria del ...

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.

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola was the quintessential Renaissance humanist. By the age of 24, he had mastered Greek, Hebrew, Latin and Arabic, reading all the great works of these literary traditions.

FLORENCE, Italy, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Forensic scientists said the death of Italian Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola appears to have been foul play. Silvano Vinceti, head of the ...

Through the story of Renaissance prodigy and polymath Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the author of The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books examines whether there is a form of speech so powerful as to allow ...

As Wilson-Lee writes, this was the day when “the Wise Men had knelt down to the infant Jesus, submitting all foreign knowledge to the supremacy of God’s truth”. Pico’s aim was thus to reconcile ...