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Steuco, Agostino

Born: 1497/1498, Gubbio, Italy

Died: 1548, Venice, Italy

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Agostino Steuco – Canons Regular of the Lateran, Counter-Reformation humanist, Biblical scholar, and prefect of the Vatican Library – was undoubtedly one of the most representative thinkers in the history of Renaissance Neoplatonism. His major work is De perenni philosophia (1540).

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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). Steuco, Agostino. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_758-1

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