Francesco Piccolomini (philosopher)
Francesco Piccolomini (1523–1607) was senior chair of natural philosophy at the University of Padua from 1560–1598, moving there from previous professorial positions at the University of Siena, Macerata, and Perugia. His best-known work, Universa philosophia de moribus (A Comprehensive Philosophy of Morals), systematizes and extends Aristotle's work on ethics and politics. He sparred intellectually with his fellow Aristotelian professor Jacopo Zabarella.[1]
He was in his time one of the most revered (and the highest paid[2]) philosophy professor, and Torquato Tasso called him "a veritable sea and ocean of all learning".
Works
- Universa philosophia de moribus (1583)
- Comes politicus pro recta ordinis ratione propugnator (1596)
- Librorum ad scientiam de natura attinentium (Venència, 1596)
- De rerum definitionibus (1600)
- Discursus ad universam logicam attinens (1606)
References
- ^ Garin, Eugenio. History of Italian Philosophy. Vol. 1. p. 437.
- ^ Kraye, Jill (August 28, 1997). Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts. Cambridge University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-521-42604-6.
Bibliography
- MacIntyre, Alasdair C. (2006). Ethics and Politics: Selected Essays. Vol. 2. pp. 7–18. ISBN 0-521-67062-4.
- Enciclopedia Universal Ilustrada Europeo-Americana (in Spanish). José Espasa and Sons. 1994. p. 329. ISBN 84-239-4544-8.
- Kraye, Jill (August 28, 1997). Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts. Cambridge University Press. pp. 68–69. ISBN 978-0-521-42604-6.
- Ragnisco, P. "Giacomo Zabarella il filosofo: la polemica tra Fr. Piccolomini e G. Zabarella". Atti dell' Istituto Veneto (in Italian). 6 (4): 1885–86.
- Schmitt, C.B.; et al. (eds.). The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy. pp. 527–30.
- Carotti, Laura (2015). "PICCOLOMINI, Francesco". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 83: Piacentini–Pio V (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
