Girolamo Manfredi or Hieronimus de Manfredis (1430–1493) was an Italian

philosopher A philosopher is a person who practices or investigates philosophy. The term ''philosopher'' comes from the grc, φιλόσοφος, , translit=philosophos, meaning 'lover of wisdom'. The coining of the term has been attributed to the Greek th ...

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and

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. He lived and worked in Bologna, becoming a notable citizen.

Life

Born in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

in a family of lawyers, he led his studies in his hometown, in

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where he graduated in 1455, and in

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where he completed his Ph.D. He taught

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and other disciplines in Bologna for the rest of his life. He entered the

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and he had the

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in 1459. He disputed with

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when, at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, ...

and worked together with

Cola Montano Cola Montano, also known as Nicola Capponi, (born circa 1440 and executed 1482) was an Italian writer and humanist scholar who helped incite the ''Congiura dei Lampugnani'' or ''Conspiracy of the Lampugnani'' that succeeded in murdering the Duke of ...

and

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. Manfredi died in Bologna during the summer of 1493. He wrote his works both in Latin and

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. His most acclaimed book is ''Liber de homine (Il Perché)''.

Works

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References

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