Because I can’t go to Rome,” Pico says. “They’ll kill me. They couldn’t possibly condemn you as a heretic, but they can me very, very easily if they want to. The Nine Hundred Theses gives them all the ammunition they could ever want. My synthesis of Plato and Aristotle and the Cabala and the Koran with Christianity isn’t heretical, not really, but it’s very easy for misguided people to see it that way. I was already excommunicated once because of them. It would take very little for that to be revived.”
