Background
Gianfrancesco was the son of Galeotto I Pico, lord of Mirandola, and Bianca Maria d"Este, the daughter of Niccolò III d"Este.
Gianfrancesco was the son of Galeotto I Pico, lord of Mirandola, and Bianca Maria d"Este, the daughter of Niccolò III d"Este.
His first name is typically truncated as Gianfrancesco. Having observed the dangers to which Italian society was exposed at the time, he sounded a warning on the occasion of the Lateran Council: Joannis Francisci Pici oratio ad Leonem X et concilium Lateranense de reformandis Ecclesiæ Moribus (Hagenau, 1512, dedicated to Willibald Pirckheimer).