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|term to show=John, Count of Mirandola, Picus
|term to show=John, Count of Mirandola, Picus
|description=A celebrated Kabbalist and Alchemist, author of a treatise “on gold” and other Kabbalistic works. He defied Rome and Europe in his attempt to prove divine ''Christian ''truth in the ''Zohar.'' Born in 1463, died 1494. {{ctd-source|TG}}.
|description=A celebrated Kabbalist and Alchemist, author of a treatise “on gold” and other Kabbalistic works. He defied Rome and Europe in his attempt to prove divine ''Christian ''truth in the ''Zohar.'' Born in 1463, died 1494. {{ctd-source|TG}}.
In 1486 published nine hundred theses in Rome and offered to defend them before European scholars, undertaking to pay their travelling expenses. {{ctd-source|1=[[BCW|BCW editors]], [[Blavatsky H.P. - The Eastern Gupta-Vidya and the Kabalah#169|BCW 14:169]]}}
|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky
|quotes=H. P. Blavatsky
|image=Пико делла Мирандола, Джованни.jpg
|mentioned in=[[Blavatsky H.P. - The Eastern Gupta-Vidya and the Kabalah|The Eastern Gupta-Vidya and the Kabalah]] ([[Blavatsky H.P. - The Eastern Gupta-Vidya and the Kabalah#169|BCW 14:169]])
|ctd rus=Пико Джованни, граф Мирандолы
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