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Pendasio, Federico

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PENDASIO, FEDERICO. - Mantuan philosopher; from 1564 to 1570 he was a rival of Francesco Piccolomini for the chair of natural philosophy at Padua. From 1571 until his death (19 Dec. 1603) he taught philosophy at Bologna. He accompanied Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga to the Council of Trent.

He wrote: De natura corporum coelestium (Mantua 1555); Physicae auditionis texturae libri VIII (Venice 1604). Various manuscript works (Rome, Bibl. naz., Fondi minori, 1728-29; Ambros. of Milan, D. 192 inf., 226 inf., 244 inf., 374 inf., 376-77 inf., 387 inf., 393-94 inf., 396 inf., 403 inf., D. 138 inf., 189 inf., O 223 sup. University of Padua, 663, I and 1264; Vat. Urb. lat. 1480; Ravenna, Bibl. Class., 463). An Aristotelian of moderately Alexandrist tendencies, P. knew Plato and the Platonists in the Greek text and defended the individual immortality of the human soul. With Piccolomini, a Platonizing Averroist, he — an anti-Averroist — had a bitter polemic, of which the Apologies of both are the record. Portrait at the Biblioteca civica of Mantua.

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BIBL.: F. Fiorentino, P. Pomponazzi. Studi storici sulla scuola bolognese e padovana nel sec. XVI, Florence 1868, pp. 362-83; A. Rivolta, Catal. dei codici pinelliani [lat.] dell'Ambros., Milan 1933, pp. XXV, LIII, 3, 74, 162, 163; B. Nardi, Il commento di Simplizio al « De anima » nelle controversie ecc., in the vol. Testi umanistici inediti sul « De anima » dell'Archivio di filosofia, Padua 1951, p. 181 ff.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX (1952), col. 1101.

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Nardi, Bruno. “Pendasio, federico.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, col. 1101. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/pendasio-federico.

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Nardi, Bruno. “Pendasio, federico.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IX, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1101. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/pendasio-federico.

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  author    = {Nardi, Bruno},
  title     = {Pendasio, federico},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IX},
  pages     = {1101},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/pendasio-federico}
}

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