Open self-transformation

Where the Renaissance meets late modernity

A portrait of Pico della Mirandola by Cristofano dell'Altissimo, Uffizi Gallery, Florence

The shock and deep significance of the Renaissance lay in its utter rejection of the medieval world which preceded it, although that shock and rejection became much clearer in hindsight, as the novel movement, in art, literature and thought, progressed and matured i…