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Pomponazzi, Pietro

Born: Mantua 1462

Died: Bologna 1525

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Pietro Pomponazzi (Mantua 1462–Bologna 1525) was undoubtedly one of the most important philosophers of his time. After receiving his doctorate in arts from the University of Padua in 1487, he spent most of his life there as well as in Bologna teaching natural philosophy and commenting the books of Aristotle with great success. His work went beyond the purely scholastic realm and caused an enormous controversy which finally did not culminate in an official process against Pomponazzi because of the intervention of Cardinal Pietro Bembo, among others. Pomponazzi’s main intention was to analyze thoroughly the most important premises and elements of Aristotelianism in order to determine whether or not it could fit in with the great dogmas of Christian thought about the world and human beings. The result of this analysis was a handful of writings of great historical significance such as the De immortalitate animae (1516), the De fato, or the De incantationibus (both of these published posthumously): in all of them, Pomponazzi denied that the immortality of the soul, human freedom, or supernatural explanations for certain events, like miracles, could somehow go well with Aristotle, the paradigm of rationality still in the early sixteenth century.

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García Valverde, J.M. (2017). Pomponazzi, Pietro. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_100-2

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