Giovanni Pico della Mirandola e la riforma dell’astrologia

On the 24th of February 1463, the Renaissance

philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

was born at Mirandola, near Modena in Italy. In 1486,

at the young age of 23, he famously offered to defend

900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy

and magic. The intellectual journey of Pico is

very complex. In his book Disputationes he criticized

firmly astrology. In this book Pico presents arguments

against the practice of astrology that have had

enormous resonance for centuries, up to our own

time. This refutation of astrology has provoked

many reactions. In the opinion of Bellanti and Pontano,

criticism of Pico were inspired by Savonarolas’s

propaganda.