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Forty Centuries of Christian Writing

1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.

1401–1500

The Fifteenth Century

1 work

1486

Latin

Oration on the Dignity of Man

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola · 1463–1494

God tells Adam he has no fixed place or nature, and may sink to the brutes or rise to the divine as he chooses — an opening speech for a debate never held.

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