PALEARIO, AONIO (c. 1500-1570)

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PALEARIO, AONIO (c. 1500-1570) , Italian humanist and reformer, was born about 1500 at

Veroli

VEROLI (anc. Verulae)

, in the Roman Campagna. Other forms of his name are Antonio Della Paglia, A. Degli Pagliaricci. In 1520 he went to Rome, where he entered the brilliant literary circle of Leo X. When Charles of Bourbon stormed Rome in 1527 Paleario went first to Perugia and then to Siena, where he settled as a teacher. In 1536 his didactic poem in Latin hexameters, De immortalitate animarum, was published at Lyons. It is divided into three books, the first containing his proofs of the divine existence, and the remaining two the theological and philosophical arguments for immortality based on that postulate. The whole concludes with a rhetorical description of the occurrences of the Second Advent. In 1542 a

tract

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

, written by him and entitled Della Pienezza, sufficienza, et satisfazione della passione di Christo, or Libellus de morte Christi, was made by the

Inquisition

INQUISITION, THE (Lat. inquisitio, an inquiry)

the basis of a charge of heresy, from which, however, he successfully defended himself. In Siena he wrote his Actio in pontifices romanos et eorum assedas, a vigorous indictment, in twenty "testimonia," against what he now believed to be the fundamental error of the Roman Church in subordinating Scripture to tradition, as well as against various particular doctrines, such as that of
P. Orsi in Notizie degli Scavi (1899), 452471; Romische Quartalschrift (1898), 624-631.purgatory; it was not, however, printed until after his death (

Leipzig

LEIPZIG

, 16o6). In 1546 he accepted a professorial chair at Lucca, which he exchanged in 1555 for that of Greek and Latin literature at

Milan

MILAN
MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

. Here about 1566 his enemies renewed their activity, and in 1567 he was formally accused by Fra Angelo the inquisitor of

Milan

MILAN
MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

. He was tried at Rome, condemned to death in October 1569, and executed in July 1570.
An edition of his works (Ant. Palearii Verulani Opera), including four books of Epistolae and twelve Orations besides the De immortalitate, was published at Lyons in 1552; this was followed by two others, at Basel, and several after his death, the fullest being that of Amsterdam, 1696. A

work

WORK

, entitled Benefizio di Cristo (" The Benefit of Christ's Death "), has been attributed to Paleario on insufficient grounds. Lives by Gurlitt (Hamburg, 1805) ;

Young

(2 vols., London, 186o) ; Bonnet (Paris, 1862).

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