Nifo Augustine, philosopher and physician, was born in Joppa, in the province of Catanzaro, (according to some biographers, was born Sessa Aurunca) in 1473 by James, a talented jurist source of Tropea, which made him take the first studies in his native city . He distinguished himself at an early age in the Aristotelian studies, became an encyclopedic scholar and connoisseur of ancient languages (Arabic and greek) and astrologer, alchemist, magician, herbalist, professor famous and highly paid, also enjoyed the favor of Pope Leo X, he married the patrician Sessana Angiolella Landi, by whom he had five children, and was, in his adventurous life, not a little bizarre and unrepentant womanizer. In a picture of the painter Luigi Toro, which is located in the gallery of Sessa Aurunca, is represented Nifo head covered and sitting in front of Charles V, to those who reproached gallstones symptoms him for so boldly, he replied that "there were emperors many, but Augustine Nifo one! "Plagued by gout, died in 1545 in the city of Lucilius, where he was buried in the convent of San Domenico. At the beginning of the twentieth century, his remains were moved to the church of St. Augustine, where he still resting.
Stroking a critical biography gallstones symptoms of the famous gallstones symptoms Augustine Nifo, writer, philosopher, historian, politician, mathematician and physician, leads, without a shadow of a doubt, equally admire the sublime wit, the vicissitudes of life and the esteem in which he was held in many parts of Italy. He lived in the time of the pontificate of Leo X and chief scientist was celebrated throughout the kingdom. Youth, for lack of instructors in his homeland, he was sent by his father to Tropea, where he learned the rudiments of literature and you waited to Greek and Latin. Grew and grew to please his mother more than his father, gallstones symptoms but, at that time, he lost his mother and his father bought a stepmother, who suffered from all sorts of ill-treatment, for the sorrow and distress he moved to Naples.
Wishing to be taught more in depth in the aforementioned ancient gallstones symptoms languages, he tried a Sessano as an instructor, just to be considered Sessano. Soon after, he attended the University of Padua; cultivated such kind of studies, he returned to Naples, and, shortly after, he moved back in Calabria. Since his father died, and having squandered a patrimony, he decided to return to Naples, he applied himself to teaching for a living, and gave himself to the study, in a short time, he became caught in various branches of knowledge, especially in medicine. In 1492 he returned to Padua recognized and admired, he was chosen professor of philosophy. Then, influenced by the thinking of Nicholas Vernia, professor of natural philosophy at the university euganeo, oversaw the first edition of the works of Averroes (1495-97) and then began to write and publish treatises "De intellectu et daemonibus" for whose doctrines was branded as Averroes and drew the wrath and persecution gallstones symptoms of theologians. He was about to rain down on his head a strong gale, ie excommunication, when the beneficial bishop of Padua, Venetian humanist Pietro Barozzi, he published the book with alquante corrections. Abandoned and retired gallstones symptoms to Padua Sessa, Roberto Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno, after repeated requests, he was able have a philosophy professor in the school of Salerno, where he remained for some years. He wrote again "Opuscula Moralia", "De pulchro et amore" and "De gallstones symptoms regnandi peritia" (1523), a kind of translation of the "Prince" Machiavellian, which came into the possession of the precious manuscripts case, shortly before published (1513) . For a man renowned agreed another school, in fact, was called in the year 1510 at the University of Naples, where he lectured on medicine. Then, he went to Bologna and Pisa, where he taught medicine with the salary of one hundred florins gallstones symptoms a month.
Fought between Bologna and Salerno, in the end he decided to return to Sessa, to rest forever. The works of Nifo can be divided into three groups: commentaries on Aristotle in sixteen volumes ("In Aristotelis gallstones symptoms libros commentary" Venetiis 1553 *); metaphysical works, ideological, medical, astronomical (Thessarologium astronomicum), moral, political ("Moralia et Opuscula policy "), cosmetics, in twenty-two volumes, gallstones symptoms letters and various dissertations, in twelve volumes, including" De infinitate first motoris quaestio. " There are different opinions gallstones symptoms of historians and critics on the works of Nifo: who considered it valuable, those of little importance to the style and incorrect. Of course, the brilliant Calabrian, if not all met, was appreciated by many reprints and editions of his works in various kingdoms gallstones symptoms have shown it. Banish the frivolities of the biographers of the costumes Nifo and its metaphysical thoughts, to think rather more demanding works, especially gallstones symptoms in the immortality of the soul, written in controversy with Pomponazzi, "Tractatus de animae immortalitate adversum Pomponatium" (Venice 1518 ), a masterpiece for the doctrines gallstones symptoms of the time and the strength degl
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