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See also:AGOSTINO [AUGUSTINUS Nlrnus] See also:NIFO (c. 1473–1538 or 1545) , See also:Italian philosopher and commentator, was See also:born at Japoli in See also:Calabria . He settled for a See also:time at Sezza and subsequently proceeded to See also:Padua, where he studied See also:philosophy . He lectured at Padua, See also:Naples, See also:Rome and See also:Pisa, and won so high a reputation that he was deputed by See also:Leo X. to defend the See also:Catholic See also:doctrine of See also:Immortality against the attack of Pomponazzi and the See also:Alexandrists . In return for this he was made See also:Count See also:Palatine, with the right to See also:call himself by the name See also:Medici . In his See also:early thought he followed See also:Averroes, but afterwards modified his views so far as to make himself acceptable to the orthodox Catholics . In 1495 he produced an edition of the See also:works of Averroes; with a commentary compatible with his acquired orthodoxy . In the See also:great controversy with the Alexandrists he opposed the theory of Pomponazzi that the rational soul is inseparably See also:bound up with the material See also:part of the individual, and hence that the See also:death of the See also:body carries with it the death of the soul . He insisted that the individual soul, as part of See also:absolute See also:intellect, is indestructible, and on the death of the body is merged in the eternal unity . His See also:principal philosophical works are De immortalitate animi (1518 and 1524); De intellectu et daemonibus; De infinitate primi motoris quaestio and Opuscula moralia et politica . His numerous commentaries on See also:Aristotle were widely read and frequently reprinted, the best-known edition being one printed at See also:Paris in 1.654 in fourteen volumes (including the Opuscula) . |
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