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On the Dignity of Man

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Also known as: “De dignitate et excellentia hominis”

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Italian literature

In Italian literature: The age of humanism
…excellentia hominis (completed in 1452; On the Dignity of Man) and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Oratio de hominis dignitate (written 1486; Oration on the Dignity of Man). The humanist vision evolved during this period condemned many religious opinions of the Middle Ages still widely prevalent: monastic ideals of isolation and…
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