Bibliographic Note
The Life of Pico Della Mirandola was originally written in Latin by his nephew Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and translated into English by Thomas More in 1504. This Ex-Classics version is taken from an edition edited with intriduction and notes by J. M. Rigg, published by David Nutt in 1890. The spelling has been modernised.
The essay by Walter Pater is from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1873).