Sperone Speroni and the Debate over Sophistry in the Italian Renaissance. Teodoro Katinis. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 272. Leiden: Brill, 2018. xii + 174 pp. $109

Often, the vibrancy of such intellectual life was associated with institutionalized Peripatetic schools. [...]as Katinis explicitly notes, two brief and openly polemical works written by the Aristotelian Sperone Speroni (1500–88), In Defence of the Sophists and Against Socrates, offer a surprising a...

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Published inRenaissance Quarterly Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 333 - 335
Main Author Gulizia, Stefano
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2021
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