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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

1463 to 1494 4 documented presences 4 places

Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for Giovanni Pico della Mirandola across 4 places, from 1477 to 1492. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (24 February 1463 to 17 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was documented, and when

1477year
Bolognaattested “Intended for the Church by his mother, he was named a papal protonotary (probably honorary) at the age of 10 and in 1477, he went to Bologna to study canon law.” source: Wikipedia: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1480 to 1482period
University of Paduaattested “From 1480 to 1482, he continued his studies at the University of Padua, a major centre of Aristotelianism in Italy.” source: Wikipedia: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1492year
Florenceattested “After the death of Lorenzo de' Medici, in 1492, Pico moved to Ferrara, although he continued to visit Florence.” source: Wikipedia: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1492year
Ferraraattested “After the death of Lorenzo de' Medici, in 1492, Pico moved to Ferrara, although he continued to visit Florence.” source: Wikipedia: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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Places Giovanni Pico della Mirandola is documented in

Bologna1 presence · 1477Ferrara1 presence · 1492Florence1 presence · 1492University of Padua1 presence · 1480

Other places tied to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola in the record

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November 1484month
Florencementioned “The first was when he returned to settle for a time in Florence in November 1484 and met Lorenzo de' Medici and Marsilio Ficino, who would later shape Pico's understanding of philosophy.” source: Wikipedia: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
December 1486month
Romementioned “He had them published together in December 1486 as "Conclusiones philosophicae, cabalasticae et theologicae", and offered to pay the expenses of any scholars who came to Rome to debate them publicly.” source: Wikipedia: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1488year
Vincennesmentioned “Pico fled to France in 1488, where he was arrested by Philip II, Duke of Savoy, at the demand of the papal nuncios, and imprisoned at Vincennes.” source: Wikipedia: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1488year
Francementioned “Pico fled to France in 1488, where he was arrested by Philip II, Duke of Savoy, at the demand of the papal nuncios, and imprisoned at Vincennes.” source: Wikipedia: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
1489year
Fiesolementioned “He settled in a villa near Fiesole prepared for him by Lorenzo, where he wrote and published the Heptaplus id est de Dei creatoris opere (1489) and De Ente et Uno (Of Being and Unity, 1491).” source: Wikipedia: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Documented at the same place, the same year

Heinrich IsaacFlorence · 1492

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