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|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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John, Count of Mirandola, Picus
John, Count of Mirandola, Picus
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. (TG).
In 1486 published nine hundred theses in Rome and offered to defend them before European scholars, undertaking to pay their travelling expenses. (BCW editors, BCW 14:169)
Some links:
- Quotes: H. P. Blavatsky
- CTD article in Russian: Пико Джованни, граф Мирандолы
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