Pietro Pomponazzi

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Born	September 16, 1462 • Mantua
Died	May 18, 1525 (aged 62) • Bologna
Notable Works	“De fato” • “De incantationibus” • “Tractatus de immortalitate animae”
Subjects Of Study	immortality

Isaac Of Stella

English philosopher and theologian

George Gemistus Plethon

Byzantine philosopher

Agostino Nifo

Italian philosopher

Hillel ben Samuel

Jewish physician and scholar

Lorenzo Valla

Italian humanist

Tommaso Campanella

Italian philosopher and poet

Giles of Rome

Augustinian theologian

Plato

Greek philosopher

Immanuel Kant

German philosopher

Moses Mendelssohn

German-Jewish philosopher and scholar

Domingo Gundisalvo

Spanish philosopher

Aristotle

Greek philosopher

Averroës

Muslim philosopher

Avicenna

Persian philosopher and scientist

Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

French philosopher and humanist

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Roman scholar, philosopher, and statesman

Alasdair MacIntyre

Scottish-born philosopher

St. Albertus Magnus

German theologian, scientist, and philosopher

Maximus The Greek

Greek Orthodox monk and scholar

John Philoponus

philosopher and theologian

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