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See also:PIER ANGELO See also:MANZOLLI , See also:Italian author, was See also:born about the end of the fifteenth See also:century at La Stellata, near See also:Ferrara . He wrote a poem entitled Zodiacus vitae, published at See also:Basel in 1543, and dedicated to See also:Hercules II. of Ferrara . The poem is full of didactic See also:writing on the subject of human happiness in connexion with scientific knowledge, and combines metaphysical See also:speculation with satirical attacks on ecclesiastical See also:hypocrisy, and especially on the See also:Pope and on See also:Luther . It was translated into several See also:languages, but See also:fell under the See also:ban of the See also:Inquisition on the ground of its rationalizing tendencies . |
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