, professor of philosophy at Fer*ara and at Padua, who raised himself to
, professor of philosophy at Fer*ara and at Padua, who raised himself to such a pitch of
fame, that princes and kings were ambitious to procure his
portrait, was born at Cento in the Modenese, in 1550;
and died at Padua, of the plague, in 1630, at the age of
80. His principal works are; 1. “Aminta e Clori, favola
silvestre,
” Ferrara, Bergamo, 1617, 12mo. 3.
” De physico auditu,“1596, folio. 4.
” De calido innato,“1626, 4to. 5.
” De
sensibus & facilitate appetiva," 1644, 4to, and other works
which shew that his religious creed was reducible to very
few articles. He thought that, according to the principles
of Aristotle, the soul is material, capable of corruption,
and mortal, as well as the souls of brutes.