POMPONAZZI (Pietro).

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POMPONAZZI (Pietro).
Tractatus De immortalitate animae. S.l., 1534 [17th century]. In-12, brown calf, spine decorated (17th century binding). Rare clandestine edition of the famous treatise by Pietro Pomponazzi (1462-1525) (Pierre Pomponace in French), materialist philosopher who taught in Padua, Ferrara and Bologna. This one, probably printed in the 17th century under a false date, is described in the Libertins érudits catalogue of the Paul Jammes bookshop under n°329: the typography is most probably French, Parisian even, and one can imagine that it came out of presses that Naudé was not unaware of. In his work, initially published in 1516, the author compares the two opposing theories on the burning subject of the mortality or not of the human soul. By siding with Aristotle, he provoked the wrath of the Church, which condemned his book, burned it in public by the inquisitors in Venice and banned it from the Council of Trent (cf. Peignot, Dictionary of the principal books condemned to fire, t. II, pp. 49-50). Restored binding (caps, corners and bits).
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