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Encyclopedia Britannica



PORZIO, SIMONE (1497-1554)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 169 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PORZIO, SIMONE (1497-1554) , Italian philosopher, was born and died at Naples. Like his greater contemporary, Pomponazzi, he was a lecturer on
medicine
  at Pisa (1546-1552), and in later
life
  gave up purely scientific study for speculation on the nature of man. His philosophic theory was identical with that of Pomponazzi, whose De immortalitate animi he defended and amplified in a treatise De mente humane. There is told of him a story which illustrates the temper of the early humanistic revival in
Italy
 . When he was beginning his first lecture at Pisa he opened the meteorological
treatises
  of
Aristotle
 . The
audience
 , composed of students and townspeople, interrupted him with the cry Quid de anima ? (We would hear about the soul), and Porzio was constrained to
change
  the subject of his lecture. He professed the most open materialism, denied
immortality
  in all forms and taught that the soul of man is homogeneous with the soul of animals and
plants
 , material in origin and incapable of
separate
  existence.


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