 As the opening and closing lines of the Two Investigations indicate, Del Medigo composed the work at the request of his friend and Patron, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Apart from being Del Medigo’s lengthiest and most complex work, it also serves as the most striking evidence for the latter’s affinity with Paduan philosophical circles, as the nature of human intellect, and in particular its ontological status, was among the most hotly debated themes in Padua in Del Medigo’s time (see Hasse 2007, 2004: 115; Engel 2017: 20)