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Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola on Being and Unity: A Thomistic Solution to an Ancient Quarrel

HE RELIANCE OF Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s (1463-94) metaphysical outlook on the Scholastic tradition in general and on Thomas Aquinas in particular is a well-documented fact. Yet, as Michael J. B. Allen has pointed out, aspects of Pico’s argumentation concerning the identity between being and unity as found in De ente et uno “await study and documentation.” Further study is especially needed with respect to Pico’s appropriation of Thomas’s so-called real distinction between esse and essentia in the course of the Renaissance thinker’s efforts to reconcile Neoplatonic and Aristotelian metaphysics by means of the notion of participation. In De ente et uno—meant to be the prelude to a larger work, the Concord of Plato and Aristotle—Pico, true to his sobriquet