Simone Porzio
Simone Porzio (Latin: Simon Portius; 1496 – 1554) was an Italian physician and philosopher.
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Biography
After having studied in Pisa under the guide of Agostino Nifo, he followed his master to the University of Naples, gaining esteem and honors from his fellow citizens. Scarce are Porzio's works in these years, limited to books on the celibacy of priests (De celibatu), on the eruption of Monte Nuovo (De conflagratione agri puteolani)[1][2] and on the miraculous case of fasting of a German girl (De puella germanica).[3]
In 1544 he was called to the University of Pisa by the Duke Cosimo I de 'Medici, who guaranteed him a high salary and the role of superordinate. In those years Porzio composed his main works, including the treatise on ethics An homo bonus, vel malus volens fiat (1551) and in particular the De mente humana (1551), which supported the mortality of the soul according to an Alexandrist exegesis of Aristotle. Just these mortalist doctrines of his, too easily compared and superimposed to those supported by Pietro Pomponazzi in De immortalitate animae (1516), contributed to create a false biographical legend which was established after the death of Porzio, according to which he would have been a student and then a simple follower of Pomponazzi.
In any case, apart from an undeniable materialistic tendency in his exegesis of Aristotle, which is also evident in his last work, De rerum naturalium principiis, Porzio's production is also characterized by theological interests that are completely detached from peripatetic philosophy and that are particularly evident in the two commentaries to the Pater Noster that he composed between 1538 and 1552, probably not unrelated to the evangelical ferments of the Italian reform. Porzio returned to Naples in 1552, where he died in 1554.
Simone Porzio was the father of Camillo Porzio.
Notes
- ↑ Castelli, Daniela (2008). "Simone Porzio. L'"Epistola" sul Monte Nuovo e l'inedito volgarizzamento di Stefano Breventano", Archivio Storico per le Province Napoletane, Vol. CXXVI, pp. 107–35.
- ↑ Castelli, Daniela (2012). "Il De conflagratione di Simone Porzio: la collazione delle tre edizioni, un volgarizzamento e il ms. Phill.12844 dell´HRC di Austin", Rinascimento meridionale, Vol. III, pp. 81–104.
- ↑ Castelli, Daniela (2010). "Simone Porzio e il "De puella germanica": echi italiani di un dibattito europeo." In: La donna nel Rinascimento meridionale, Atti del Convegno internazionale organizzato dall'Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento Meridionale, Roma 11-13 Nov. 2009. Pisa-Roma: Fabrizio Serra, pp. 107–119.
References
- Castelli, Daniela (2007). "Tra ricerca empirica e osservazione scientifica: gli studi ittiologici di Simone Porzio", Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, Vol. LVII (158), pp. 105–23.
- Castelli, Daniela (2008). "Il De' sensi e il Del sentire di Simone Porzio: due mss. ritrovati," Giornale critico della filosofia italiana, Vol. LXXXVII (2), pp. 255–80.
- Castelli, Daniela (2008). "Un bilancio storiografico: il caso Simone Porzio", Bruniana & Campanelliana, Vol. XIV (1), pp. 163–77.
- Castelli, Daniela (2011). "Tra aristotelismo, naturalismo e critica: Note in margine a Simone Porzio (1496-1554)." In: Critica e ragione/Critique et raison, Atti del convegno internazionale organizzato dall'Università di Napoli «L'Orientale». Napoli: Liguori, pp. 33–50.
- Perfetti, Stefano (2000). Aristotle's Zoology and Its Renaissance Commentators (1521-1601). Leuven: Leuven University Press.
- Salatowsky, Sascha (2006). De Anima. Die Rezeption der aristotelischen Psychologie im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Amsterdam: Philadelphie.
- Vasoli, Cesare (2001). "Tra Aristotele, Alessandro di Afrodisia e Juan de Valdés: Note su Simone Porzio", Rivista di Storia della Filosofia, Vol. LVI (4), pp. 561–607.
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