Alexander VI absolves Pico of all heresy charges

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• Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Routledge pp. 68-73 · open book

  Unlike his predecessor, the Borgia pope was not at all averse to astrology and magic, but, on the contrary, was deeply interested in those subjects, and he came most impressively to the rescue of Pico's orthodoxy. The bulls for Pico's absolution which Lorenzo de Medici had failed to obtain from Innocent VIII, in spite of repeated appeals, were promulgated by Alexander VI on June 18th, 1493, less than a year 1 Ibid., p.

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