Hieronymus Rorarius

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Hieronymus Rorarius (Girolamo Rorario), (Pordenone 1485-Pordenone 1556) was at first an envoy on behalf of Charles V of Habsburg, and then a Papal nuncio to the court of Ferdinand of Hungary. In a 1544 pamphlet, Rorarius maintained that animals make better use of reason than men do. [1] After Gabriel Naudé republished the book in 1648, it was reprinted several times, and discussed at length by Pierre Bayle's entry Rorarius in his Historical and Critical Dictionary , where it introduced a critical discussion of the nature of the soul and of Descartes's and Leibniz's philosophies. [2]

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  1. ↑ H. Rorarius Quod animalia bruta ratione utantur melius homine.
  2. ↑ Rorarius, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy
  3. ↑ Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Bibliographical Dictionary of Italians), Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Roma, Volume 88 (2017).


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