American statesman and the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, was a student of the Italian Renaissance and its English extension. He was trained according to its tenets and subscribed to its notions about l'homme universale; In his person we see the notions of individualism and virtu in the face of fortuna come to their natural conclusion. The revolutionary notion, expressed in his Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a direct descendant of Pico Della Mirandola's Essay on the Dignity of Man. We conclude this course by examining the continue influence of those renaissance ideals in producing this extraordinary Renaissance person and the revolution that that occurred in the British colonies in the new world.