A Great Philosopher
Pico della Mirandola was an Italian Philosopher and a humanist. A lot of people would consider Pico della Mirandola an ideal man of the Italian Renaissance. Pico really helped the Renaissance, he made a huge impact on a lot of other philosophers, and a lot of other philosophers influenced him. Pico della Mirandola once stated,“Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.”(BrainyQuote). Pico della Mirandola was the biggest influence on Renaissance philosophy because of his book, Oration on the Dignity of Man, his 900 theses, and his religious impact.
Pico was born into a noble family close to Modena on February 24, 1463. He was the son of Giovan Francesco I and Guila Boiardo. He was born with an extraordinary gift for learning. He studied Canon Law in Bologna, but then he moved to Ferrara, earned more education, and then to Padua (“Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (1463-1494)), there, he met one of his most important teachers, Elia del Midigo (“Giovanni Pico della Mirandola” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). By now he was studying philosophy. He moved to Florence in 1484, while there, he became one of the most active members of Lorenzo de Medici's Platonic Academy, and he also became chief exponent of Neoplatonism. While in Florence, he increased his knowledge on Platonism (“Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (1463-1494)). In 1485, he moved from Florence to Paris where the citadel of Aristotelian scholasticism was. He also studied Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic as well as Latin and Greek (Rebhorn 57) At the age of 22, right before he left Paris, he had made his first important contribution to philosophy-He defended the ...
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THESIS STATEMENT The moral fanatic and religious fundamentalist, Giralamo Savonarola, inhibited the development of the Renaissance in Florence and brought the city back into the Middle Ages. PURPOSE STATEMENT Through scholarly research of Florentine politics and daily life during the rule of the Medici, it is affirmed that Giralamo Savonarola used religion and fear to inhibit the progression of the Renaissance in Florence. INTRODUCTION Religion provides hope for those who are hopeless. It aims to welcome those who are alienated and feel that their life has no purpose.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola influenced the Renaissance with his belief that free will was based on man’s own ability to choose his own destiny. His work “Oration on the Dignity of Man” was widely referred to as a “manifesto” of the Renaissance. He felt that due to that God given ability, humans had the ability to rise to the level of angels, which no other being could. With that he also felt the greatest potential for man lead to unity with God. This clashed with the Church because while Mirandola believed the key to free will and salvation was looking inward to one’s own faith and relationship with God while the Church taught that it should be the one intermediary between man and God. To show this Mirandola says “To you is granted the power of degrading yourself into the lower forms of life, the beasts, and to you is granted the power,
This compare and contrast essay will focus on the views of leadership between Mirandolla and Machiavelli. Mirandolla believes that leadership should not be false and that it should follow the rule of reason. He believes that leaders should strive for the heavens and beyond. On the other hand, Machiavelli believed that leadership comes to those who are crafty and forceful. He believed that leaders do not need to be merciful, humane, faithful or religious; they only need to pretend to have all these qualities. Despite both of them being philosophers, they have drastically different views on leadership, partially because of their views on religion are different. Mirandolla was very religious, and Machiavelli was a pragmatist, which means that he was not interested in religion.
Randolfo Carlo III is the only one in his family to graduate. He has been through the worst and the best times of life. He was born in NY and lived in almost every borough in NY. He has moved over 28 times in his life. “You will always have struggles, but you need to overcome adversity to be where you want to be”.
Dishonesty is an evil of various forms. More often than not, it sullies understanding in the form of a simple lie: short, deliberate, yet easily enough deductible. However, say the lie is taken into acceptance. Say the lie garners a foothold and establishes roots; thus, growing like a weed in persistence, say the lie institutes a sort of ‘myth.’ A myth, although unrealistic, becomes indulgently persuasive. In To Each His Own, Leonardo Sciascia weighs the battle for integrity in an ethically empty society against the oppression of falsehood within a Christ figure whose faith in morality likens to madness. Laurana is challenged not only by the lies of certain individuals, but more importantly by the myth his trust succumbs to in the wake of those lies. As one transcends beyond the novella’s simple plotline and into an underlying critique on Sicilian chivalry, Sciascia provides a social commentary on the ethos of a culture, it’s self-indulgent permittance of corruption, and the brutal demeaning of those who stand in opposition to it.
In Filostrato, by Giovanni Boccaccio, influence plays an essential role in where one person influences the other in many ways. The influence one has over another can be strong or poor. A strong influence where a person does or listens to everything someone says or a poor influence where a person does not listen to anything anyone says. Pandaro, who is a close friend to Trolio and a cousin to Criseida, has a strong influence on both of them to which he gets them to listen to him and use the advice he gives without question.
By the turn of the sixteenth century, the Italian Renaissance had produced writers such as Danté, Petrarch, Boccaccio and Castiglione, each with ideas rooted in the revival of Greek and Roman Classics, localization of the Christian traditions, idealistic opinions of women and individualism. From these authors spread the growth of the humanistic movement which encompassed the entirety of the Italian rebirth of arts and literature. One among many skeptics, including Lorenzo Valla, who had challenged the Catholic Church fifty years earlier in proving the falsity of the Donation of Constantine, Niccolò Machiavelli projected his ideas of fraudulence into sixteenth century Italian society by suggesting that rulers could only maintain power through propaganda, as seen with the success of Ferdinand of Aragon in Spain circa 1490. Today, the coined term Machiavellian refers to duplicity in either politics or self-advancement. Unlike most philosophers of the sixteenth century, Machiavelli wrote from the perspective of an anti-Humanist; he criticized not only the Classics and the Catholic Church, but also encouraged the deceitful use of religion and hated the humanist concepts of liberty, peace and individualism.1
Writers and philosophers of the Renaissance time period expressed their opinions about human nature and human's roles in the universe through their writings. Pico della Mirandola's "Oration on the dignity of man", which glorifies humanity and praises the human ability to reason, offers the opposing view to Shakespeare's Hamlet and Montaigne's essay "Man's presumption and Littleness" which both suggest that humans are no higher in the universal order of things than any other of God's creatures.
the basis for much of the style and aims of the later High Renaissance. He was actively
...in the article below the video. The information I will be using is mainly about his childhood including his, birth date(April 6, 1483), birth place(Urbino, Italy), and also includes his influences into art.
Niccolo Machiavelli was born in May of 1469 in Florence, Italy to a family that was of noble blood, but by no means rich. His mother was a poet and his father was a lawyer and they could not afford to send him to a proper school. Not much is known about his early childhood or teenage years; only that because of their noble blood, Niccolo’s family did their best to maintain their status and Niccolo did eventually grow up to be a well brought up young man with a good image. He eventually attended college at the
However, from an early age he would teach himself diverse scientific and artistic interests, such as music, sculpture, painting, physics, architecture, and mathematics. He worked as an architect mostly in Florence, Rimini, and Mantua. Not only was he an accomplished architect, he was also a humanist( trained to be so), musician, and art theorist. When he was in Florence somewhere between 1434 and 1436, his interest for visual art really started to show.
The Portuguese Jesuit João da Rocha (1565-1623) was born in Lamego and ordained at the age of 18 years in Coimbra Novitiate on 22 February 1583. While he was still a novice, Rocha requested several times to join the missions in the East. His request was finally granted and he initiated his missionary journey in 1586. After arriving at Goa, he studied philosophy and later, in Macao, proceeded his studies in theology. Around 1598, Rocha finally departed to join the China mission, where he spent the rest of his life contributing significantly to the growth of the missions in Shaoguan, Nanchang, Nanjing, and in Hangzhou, where he died in 1623 after serving in the China mission for 25 years.
It’s quotes like this that inspire me, and that I can relate to. This is why I see Dante Alighieri as sort of an image of who I want to be. In my opinion he is the greatest dramatic poet of all time. He is best known for his works such as The Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia), Vita Nuova, and De Vulgari Eloquentia. He released most of his works in the fourteenth century, and they have stood the test of time, having been translated into 175 languages multiple times. He has been named Il Sommo Poeta, meaning The Supreme Poet. Also, he has been considered the father of the Italian language.
Leonardo was born in a small town in Tuscany, Italy called Vinci on 15 April, 1452. Back then, not all people had surnames; only those who were rich and powerful deserved one. Therefore, when people today refer to him as “Leonardo da Vinci”, “da Vinci” actually means “from Vinci” in Italian. His talent for painting was recognized by his family and neighbors when he was still a boy, and he started his painting career at a very young age. At 14, he was sent to Florence by his father to learn from Verrocchio, who owned a leading workshop at the time. It is said that when he cooperated with Verrocchio on the Baptism of Christ, his skill was so much finer than his master’s that Verrocchio quit in the middle and never painted again for his whole life. 1