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Oration on the Dignity of Man
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- Renaissance magic and Christian Cabala
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- Primary source Written from inside the tradition: scripture, revelation, a grimoire, a manifesto or a practical treatise.
- Public attention
- Major Wikipedia has an article about it in 14 languages.
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From Wikipedia
The Oration on the Dignity of Man is a public discourse composed in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola, an Italian scholar and philosopher of the Renaissance. It remained unpublished until 1496. The Pico Project–a collaboration between the University of Bologna and Brown University–and others have called it the "Manifesto of the Renaissance". In brief, the "dignity" described is that a human can become anything they desire.
From the Wikipedia article Oration on the Dignity of Man, revision 1335590410, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q2085760: “public discourse by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola”.
In this study
In the chronology, in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's account.
Originally conceived as an introduction to his proposed disputation.