Beyond the story of Giulio Cesare Vanini’s adventurous life, this study provides an intellectual biography of a monk with humanist knowledge who participated in the religious debates of his time. He developed a resolutely materialist philosophy, considered to be one of the first expressions of modern atheism.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-15815-8
EAN:9782406158158
ISSN: 2108-5471
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-015-8
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 02-28-2007
Language: French
Keyword: Aristotle, libertinism, erudite, Averroism, astrology, medicine, providence, sensualism, Galileo, Gerolamo Cardano, François de Bassompierre, seventeenth-century philosophy