From 737 Conclusions by Jean Cabrol to Giovanni Pico’s 900 Conclusions
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The heart of Pico’s legend, still beating today on the internet, is his prodigious, omnicompetent, self-sufficient genius – original, parahuman mastery of everything knowable at an unbelievably early age. This durable tale has floated free of evidence, but Pico’s 900 Conclusions has given weight to part of it. Yet the ballast crumbles under the load of textual facts. The young prince did not know everything. He got by with a more than a little help from his friends: Marsilio Ficino, Elia del Medigo, Flavius Mithridates and especially Jean Cabrol.
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