Reference code
DWL/RB/1/417
Level of description
item
Title
An appendix vindicating the soul’s immortality
Date
1600-1699
Extent and Medium
Extent:Facsimiles, vol. II, ff 1-64
Scope and content
An Appendix Vindicating the Soules Immortality against Pomponatius & others. The Brutists Objections answered (viz, Pomponatius) An appendix vindicating the souls immortality against Pietro Pomponazzi and others. The Brutists objections answered: ‘§1. Of those that have written against the Naturall proofe of the Soules Immortality, Petrus Pomponatius a Learned Venetian is the chiefe whom his Schollar Cardinall Contarenus hath confuted,’
Finding aids
Argent xxii.336; British Library, Egerton ff 79-110 (being the original)
Publication note
- Pietro Pomponazzi (Petrus Pomponatius) (1462-1525) was an outstanding philosopher of the Italian Renaissance. See C B Schmitt, Q Skinner, E Kessler, J Kraye (eds) The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy (Cambridge 1988) and ODCC.'
- For Cardinal Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542), diplomat, Venetian ambassador and theologian, see ODCC.
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