Question: Who was influenced by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and later went on to influence Machiavelli?
Answer(s):
answer: Desiderius Erasmus

SPARQL query:
PREFIX ns: <http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/>
SELECT DISTINCT ?x
WHERE {
FILTER (?x != ns:m.05cvs)
FILTER (!isLiteral(?x) OR lang(?x) = '' OR langMatches(lang(?x), 'en'))
ns:m.05cvs ns:influence.influence_node.influenced_by ?x .
?x ns:influence.influence_node.influenced_by ns:m.013w_3 . 
}