Abstract
When the 15th century Italian thinker Giovanni Pico della Mirandola wrote his Oratio , he had intended it to preface the public disputation of his 900 Theses , a compilation of wide-ranging statements both historical and original, which he had published in December I486.2 The disputation was to take place in Rome in the next year, and the youthful Pico envisioned a forum held before the College of Cardinals with the Pope himself serving as the judge of the proceedings. Distinguished scholars were expected at the event as well, for Pico had offered to pay the travel expenses of any philosopher or theologian who wished to travel to Rome to join the proceedings.3 At the time, Pico was 23 years old and was well-versed in Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic texts, and his theses had been drawn from varied sources including scholastic, Islamic, Peripatetic,
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