Introduction

Peter Adamson: Nominative determinism refers to the supposed phenomenon that your name determines your profession or your fate more generally. Pico della mirandola held the title count of Concord, Concordia being a land holding near his home city of Mirandola. He was heir to both a family fortune and the harmonizing project of predecessors like Cardinal Bessarion who had distanced himself from his teacher Pliton by arguing for the fundamental agreement between Plato and Aristotle.