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Vanini, Giulio Cesare

Born: Taurisano (1585)

Died: Toulouse (1619)

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With his restless spirit, feeling himself vested with the civil task of a profound political and cultural renewal of human beings and society, Vanini, at the dawn of the modern age, conducts a systematic demolition of Medieval and Renaissance theological learning from the perspective of radical rationalism, almost pre-Enlightenment, and paves the way for a refoundation of learning on the basis of the autonomy of reason and nature, with often subversive outcomes of the ethical and cultural values of the Christian tradition.

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Raimondi, F.P. (2014). Vanini, Giulio Cesare. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_379-1

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