Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man Year: 1486
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola:Oration on the Dignity of Man

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Abstract

Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man. And that celebrated exclamation of Hermes Trismegistus, “What a great miracle is man, Asclepius” confirms this opinion.

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