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Pendasio taught natural philosophy at the universities of Padua and Bologna. He commented on Aristotle’s works on physics but also on the books of De Anima, in which he followed Alexander of Aphrodisias. The peculiarity of Pendasio’s commentaries lies in his textual exegesis of De Anima, which on the one hand complied with the restrictive directions of the bull Apostolici regiminis (1513) and which on the other hand was open toward an innovative empirical investigation of the human body. In particular, his interpretation of the material intellect promoted the study of the human brain, which obtained remarkable results by the work of the young anatomist Costanzo Varolio on the origin of the optic nerve.
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De Angelis, S. (2015). Pendasio, Federico. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_352-1
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