Francesco Patrizi 1529 – 1597
Francesco Patrizi (1529 – 1597) was an Italian philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Renaissance and Platonism.
Francesco Patrizi da Cherso was an Italian Renaissance Platonist philosopher, polymath, and the first holder of a chair of Platonic philosophy at Ferrara, later moving to a corresponding chair at Rome. A Croatian by origin, he combined wide humanist learning with a vehement opposition to Aristotelian scholasticism, expressed in the four-volume Discussiones Peripateticae. His Nova de Universis Philosophia developed an original Platonic-Hermetic cosmology centered on light as the fundamental principle of the universe and proposed an infinite cosmos open to natural philosophical investigation. The work was placed on the Index after his death, but it shaped later Italian and German nature philosophy.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Italian
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Renaissance, Platonism
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Francesco Patrizi:
“Light is the first and noblest of all natural things.”
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Attributed to Francesco Patrizi:
“The universe is infinite, both in extent and in possibility.”
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Attributed to Francesco Patrizi:
“Aristotle should not be read as the dictator of philosophy.”
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Attributed to Francesco Patrizi:
“Plato is the philosopher most in harmony with the wisdom of the ages.”
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Attributed to Francesco Patrizi:
“Soul is the bond between the intelligible world and the sensible.”
Francesco Patrizi by topic
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- Francesco Patrizi was associated with Renaissance and Platonism.
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- Francesco Patrizi da Cherso was an Italian Renaissance Platonist philosopher, polymath, and the first holder of a chair of Platonic philosophy at Ferrara, later moving to a corresponding chair at Rome.
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