Pico della Mirandola

                    Pico della Mirandola was the personification of renaissance life because of all that he did. First of all, renaissance means “the rebirth” or the revival of learning and culture. Mirandola was a perfect fit for this since he was extremely smart and sought to relate everything to God, thereby solving the problem of the one in the many. The problem is how everything in the universe relates to the one God. Mirandola stated that all of the things in the universe are symbols of God. Like religion, speech, and philosophy, they are all images and expressions of God. Whereas the medieval view of this was that nothing on Earth resembles God, Mirandola reversed this by saying that everything that humans can think, imagine, and create are expressions of divinity. Since humanism in the renaissance was about relating man and God, Mirandola is a perfect example of making this happen. He went even further by offering to defend 900 theses on religion, natural philosophy, and magic.