The splendour of the courts, the beauty of the villas and gardens, the miracle of the Arts and Letters: this was the sparkling setting for the young Count of Mirandola and his friends. With his passion for the Jewish cabala and as champion of philosophical harmony, the Count was audacious to the point of arrogance, self-assured, full of enthusiasm.

Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri paints a portrait of a feverishly active figure with a prodigious ability for learning, but also of a man not infrequently given to melancholy and solitude. All characteristics which, along with his vast and admirable learning, conjure up the ideal of a boundless cultural model, where the ancient sources of knowledge became for Pico the basis of a new and European culture and a comprehensive plan for peace.