Marius Nizolius ( it, Mario Nizolio; 1498–1576) was an Italian humanist scholar, known as a proponent of Cicero. He considered

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to be the central intellectual discipline, slighting other aspects of the philosophical tradition. He is described by Michael R. Allen as the heir to the oratorical vision of Lorenzo Valla, and a better nominalist.

Life

He was born in

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. He was professor of philosophy at Parma and Sabbioneta.

Works

His major work was the ''Thesaurus Ciceronianus'', first published in 1535 in Brixen but not under this title, and running into many further editions. It was a lexicon of Latin words used in Cicero's works. It was adopted by Renaissance extremists who considered that writing in Latin could only be correct within this restricted vocabulary. His ''Antibarbarus philosophicus'' (original title ''De veris principiis et vera ratione philosophandi contra psudophilosophos'', Parma, 1553) was edited by Leibniz in 1670 with an important Preface. It was a reply in a controversy with

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(1514-1555), and going back to a dispute from the mid-1540s over the ''Paradoxes'' of Cicero.Lawrence D. Green, ''John Rainold's Oxford Lectures on Aristotle's Rhetoric'' (1986), p. 414. He died Sabbioneta.

Notes

External links

Ignacio Angelelli, Nizolius' notion of class (multitudo) (PDF)
in Anales de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires, XXXV(2), 2001, 575-595.

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nizolius, Marius 1498 births 1576 deaths Linguists from Italy Italian Renaissance humanists