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NIFO, AGOSTINO [AUGUSTINUS Nlrnus] (c. 14731538 or 1545)

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 673 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NIFO, AGOSTINO [AUGUSTINUS Nlrnus] (c. 14731538 or 1545) , Italian philosopher and commentator, was born at Japoli in
Calabria
 . He settled for a time at Sezza and subsequently proceeded to Padua, where he studied philosophy. He lectured at Padua, Naples, Rome and Pisa, and won so high a reputation that he was deputed by Leo X. to defend the Catholic
doctrine
  of Immortality against the attack of Pomponazzi and the Alexandrists. In return for this he was made
Count
  Palatine, with the right to
call
  himself by the name Medici. In his early thought he followed Averroes, but afterwards modified his views so far as to make himself acceptable to the orthodox Catholics. In 1495 he produced an edition of the works of Averroes; with a commentary compatible with his acquired orthodoxy. In the
great
  controversy with the Alexandrists he opposed the theory of Pomponazzi that the rational soul is inseparably bound up with the material
part
  of the individual, and hence that the death of the
body
  carries with it the death of the soul. He insisted that the individual soul, as
part
  of absolute intellect, is indestructible, and on the death of the
body
  is merged in the eternal unity.
His
principal
  philosophical works are De immortalitate animi (1518 and 1524); De intellectu et daemonibus; De infinitate primi motoris quaestio and Opuscula moralia et politica. His numerous commentaries on
Aristotle
  were widely read and frequently reprinted, the best-known edition being one printed at Paris in 1.654 in fourteen volumes (including the Opuscula).


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