Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus
Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus (Italian: Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, Greek: Νικόλαος Λεόνικος Θωμεύς; 1456–1531) was a Greek teacher of philosophy at the University of Padua in the Republic of Venice.[1][2]
Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus | |
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 Nicholas Leonicus Thomaeus | |
| Born | February 1, 1456 |
| Died | 1531 (aged c. 75) |
| Nationality | Venetian (Greek parentage) |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar, professor of philosophy at the University of Padua |
| Notable work | Opuscula |
Biography
changeThomaeus was born to a Greek family in Venice, Italy on February 1, 1456.[3][4][5][6] He studied Greek philosophy and literature under the guidance of Demetrios Chalkokondyles in Florence, Italy.[3][6] In 1497, the University of Padua chose Thomaeus as its first official lecturer on the Greek text of Aristotle.[2][4][6] In 1504, he was elected to succeed Giorgio Valla as headmaster of Greek in Venice but Thomaeus did not take the position seriously.[6] He was succeeded as headmaster by Marcus Musurus in 1512.[6] Beginning in 1524, Thomaeus published series of philosophical discussions in the Latin language.[4] He was admired by scholars such as Desiderius Erasmus for his philology.[5] When the University of Padua was reopened after the wars of the League of Cambrai, Thomaeus taught at the school until he died on March 28, 1531.[6]
Works
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- Aristotelis Parva quae vocant Naturalia, Bernardino Vitali, Venice 1523.
- Trophonius, sive, De divinatione, 1524.
- Bembo sive de immortalitate animae, 1524.
- Opuscula. Ex Venetiis, Bernardino Vitali, Venice 1525.
- Conversio in Latinum atque explanatio primi libri Aristotelis de partibus animalium… nunc primum ex authoris archetypo in lucem aeditus. G. Farri, Venice 1540.
References
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change- ↑ Runciman 1985, p. 212
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Copenhaver & Schmidt 1992, p. 104.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Geanakoplos 1985, p. 358
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ossa-Richardson 2013, p. 90.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Parkinson 2003, p. 40.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Bietenholz & Deutscher 1995, pp. 323–324.
Sources
change- Bietenholz, Peter G.; Deutscher, Thomas Brian (1995) [1985]. Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation (Volumes 1–3). Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-80-208577-1.
- Copenhaver, Brian P.; Schmidt, Charles B. (1992). Renaissance Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-219203-5.
- Geanakoplos, Deno J. (1985). "The Career of the Little-known Renaissance Greek Scholar Nicholas Leonicus Tomaeus and the Ascendancy of Greco-Byzantine Aristotelianism at Padua University (1497)". Byzantina. 13 (1): 355–372.
- Ossa-Richardson, Anthony (2013). The Devil's Tabernacle: The Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-40-084659-7.
- Parkinson, G.H.R. (2003) [1993]. Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV: The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-41-505378-5.
- Runciman, Steven (1985). The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-31310-4.
Further reading
change- De Bellis, Daniela (1975). "Niccolò Leonico Tomeo interprete di Aristotele naturalista". Physis: Rivista internazionale di storia della scienza (in Italian). 17 (1–2): 71–93.
- De Bellis, Daniela (1980). "La vita e l'ambiente di Niccolo Leonico Tomeo". Quaderni per la Storia dell'Universita di Padova (in Italian). 13: 37–75.
- De Bellis, Daniela (1981). "I veicoli dell'anima nell'analisi di Niccolo Leonico Tomeo". Annali dell'Istituto di Filosofia, Universita di Firenze (in Italian). 3: 1–21.
- Serena, A. (1903). "Niccolò Leonico Tomeo". Appunti Letterari (in Italian). Rome: 5–32.