Part II- Banging on the Gates of the Apocalypse
Did Pico believe that his Vatican debate would end with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse crashing through the Roman skies, now that mankind- dressed “in garments of gold like a wedding gown, wrapped in a manifold variety of sciences” – was prepared at last for its marriage to Christ?
-Steven A. Farmer, Syncretism in the West: Pico’s 900 Theses (1486)
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