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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 673 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGOSTINO [AUGUSTINUS Nlrnus] NIFO (c. 1473–1538 or 1545)  ,
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Italian philosopher and commentator, was born at Japoli in
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Calabria . He settled for a time at Sezza and subsequently proceeded to Padua, where he studied philosophy . He lectured at Padua, Naples, Rome and Pisa, and won so high a reputation that he was deputed by Leo X. to defend the Catholic
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doctrine of Immortality against the attack of Pomponazzi and the
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Alexandrists . In return for this he was made Count Palatine, with the right to call himself by the name Medici . In his early thought he followed 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
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works of Averroes; with a commentary compatible with his acquired orthodoxy . In the
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great controversy with the Alexandrists he opposed the theory of Pomponazzi that the rational soul is inseparably bound up with the material
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part of the individual, and hence that the
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death of the
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body carries with it the death of the soul . He insisted that the individual soul, as part of absolute intellect, is indestructible, and on the death of the body is merged in the eternal unity . His
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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 Aristotle were widely read and frequently reprinted, the best-known edition being one printed at Paris in 1.654 in fourteen volumes (including the Opuscula) .

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