Magic and the Dignity of Man"This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western culture." James Hankins, Harvard University Pico della Mirandola died in 1494 at the age of thirty one. During his brief and extraordinary life, he invented Christian Kabbalah in a book that was banned by the Catholic Church after he offered to debate his ideas on religion and philosophy with anyone who