SPERONI: Sperone Speroni (1500-1588) and the Rebirth of Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance

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Università Ca' Foscari Venezia


From September 01, 2015 to August 01, 2017


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Abstract

The project analyze the singular figure of Sperone Speroni, a philosopher and scholar from Padua who lived in the sixteenth century. It brings to the attention the interest of this intellectual for the Sophists, on whom he wrote in vernacular.

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