Editing Dignity (section)

===Pico della Mirandola===
A philosopher of the Renaissance, [[Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco Pico della|Pico della Mirandola]], granted dignity to ideas and to beings. In his "[[Oration on the Dignity of Man]]", he told hostile clerics about the dignity of the liberal arts and about the dignity and the glory of [[angel]]s. His comments implied the dignity of philosophers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Mirandola/|title=Redirection|work=umich.edu}}</ref> This oration is commonly seen as one of the central texts of the [[Renaissance]], intimately tied with the growth of humanist philosophies.<ref name="CrossLamm1984">{{cite book|last1=Cross|first1=Neal Miller|author2=Robert Carson Lamm|author3=Rudy H. Turk|title=The search for personal freedom|year=1984|publisher=W.C. Brown|isbn=978-0697031303|page=4}}<!--|access-date=13 June 2010--></ref><ref name="Nauert1995">{{cite book|last=Nauert|first=Charles Garfield|title=Humanism and the culture of Renaissance Europe|url=https://archive.org/details/humanismcultureo00naue|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521407243|page=[https://archive.org/details/humanismcultureo00naue/page/67 67]}}<!--|access-date=13 June 2010--></ref>