Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present, edited by Georgiana D. Hedesan and Tim Rudbog, 2021. Although Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) considered himself 'the first among Latin scholars to refer directly to the kabbalah', earning him the title of 'Father of Christian Cabala'; and Jean Thenaud (1480–1542) is the first known author to write of a …