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Francesco Storella was born in Alessano in around 1529. Close adherence to the text, exegesis, and criticism were the characteristic features of Storella’s philosophical research, which was animated by a constant polemic against Girolamo Balduino. His works insist greatly on the importance of recovering the classical world through direct, unmediated study of Greek and Latin texts. His thought is permeated by a certain eclecticism, with references to aspects from Plato, Averroes, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham. The most significant aspects of Storella’s intellectual experience are his activity as a publisher of works from the ancient and medieval philosophical tradition, the texts of which had become difficult to find, together with his commitment to a strictly rational foundation for the study of nature.
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Verardi, D. (2015). Storella, Francesco. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_326-1
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