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AONIO PALEARIO (c. 1500-1570)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 597 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALEARIO (c. 1500-1570)  , See also:Italian humanist and reformer, was See also:born about 1500 at See also:Veroli, in the See also:Roman Campagna . Other forms of his name are See also:Antonio Della Paglia, A . Degli Pagliaricci . In 1520 he went to See also:Rome, where he entered the brilliant See also:literary circle of See also:Leo X . When See also:Charles of See also:Bourbon stormed Rome in 1527 See also:Paleario went first to See also:Perugia and then to See also:Siena, where he settled as a teacher . In 1536 his didactic poem in Latin hexameters, De immortalitate animarum, was published at See also:Lyons . It is divided into three books, the first containing his proofs of the divine existence, and the remaining two the theological and philosophical arguments for See also:immortality based on that postulate . The whole concludes with a rhetorical description of the occurrences of the Second See also:Advent . In 1542 a See also:tract, written by him and entitled Della Pienezza, sufficienza, et satisfazione della passione di Christo, or Libellus de morte Christi, was made by the See also:Inquisition the basis of a See also:charge of See also:heresy, from which, however, he successfully defended himself . In Siena he wrote his Actio in pontifices See also:romanos et eorum assedas, a vigorous See also:indictment, in twenty "testimonia," against what he now believed to be the fundamental See also:error of the Roman See also:Church in subordinating Scripture to tradition, as well as against various particular doctrines, such as that of • P . Orsi in Notizie degli Scavi (1899), 452—471; Romische Quartalschrift (1898), 624-631.See also:purgatory; it was not, however, printed until after his See also:death (See also:Leipzig, 16o6) . In 1546 he accepted a professorial See also:chair at See also:Lucca, which he exchanged in 1555 for that of See also:Greek and Latin literature at See also:Milan .

Here about 1566 his enemies renewed their activity, and in 1567 he was formally accused by Fra Angelo the inquisitor of Milan . He was tried at Rome, condemned to death in See also:

October 1569, and executed in See also:July 1570 . An edition of his See also:works (See also:Ant . Palearii Verulani See also:Opera), including four books of Epistolae and twelve Orations besides the De immortalitate, was published at Lyons in 1552; this was followed by two others, at See also:Basel, and several after his death, the fullest being that of See also:Amsterdam, 1696 . A See also:work, entitled Benefizio di Cristo (" The Benefit of See also:Christ's Death "), has been attributed to Paleario on insufficient grounds . Lives by Gurlitt (See also:Hamburg, 1805) ; See also:Young (2 vols., See also:London, 186o) ; See also:Bonnet (See also:Paris, 1862) .

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