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Curione, Celio Secondo

Born: Ciriè, near Turin, 1503

Died: Basle 1569

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Celio Secondo Curione was one of the leading philologists of late Renaissance Europe. At the same time, he was a very complex figure from a religious point of view. Exiled from Italy because of his religious positions, he came into conflict with Protestants themselves, who eventually put him under trial for his theory of universal salvation and his tolerant conception of religion.

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  • Biasiori, Lucio. 2015. L’eresia di un umanista. In Celio Secondo Curione nell’Europa del Cinquecento. Rome: Carocci.

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Biasiori, L. (2016). Curione, Celio Secondo. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_724-1

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