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Raimondi, Cosma

Born: 1400, Cremona, Italy

Died: 1435/1436, Avignon, France

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The humanist Cosma Raimondi (1400–1435/1436) was a native of Cremona and the pupil of Gasparino Barzizza (1360–1431). He helped to decipher an important manuscript of Cicero’s rhetorical works and wrote a well-known defense of Epicurus: A Letter to Ambrogio Tignosi in Defence of Epicurus against the Stoics, Academics and Peripatetics (1429). Leaving Italy, he moved to Avignon, where he later committed suicide.

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  1. Humanities Department, University of Eastern Piedmont “Amedeo Avogadro”, Vercelli, Italy

    Pier Davide Accendere

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  1. Dept. of Philosophy a. Cultural Heritage, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia Dept. of Philosophy a. Cultural Heritage, Venezia, Italy

    Marco Sgarbi

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  1. Department of Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Festa del Perdono 7, 20122, Milan, Italy

    Luca Bianchi Ph.D

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Accendere, P.D. (2017). Raimondi, Cosma. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_748-1

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