Giorgio Raguseo (1580 – 1622) was an
Italian philosopher, theologist, and orator from the
Republic of Venice
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Born an illegitimate child in
Dubrovnik
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(formerly ''Ragusa''), Croatia, Raguseo had to beg before being taken to Venice by a gentleman who provided him an education. He became a priest and taught at the
University of Padua
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Aristotelianism
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Cesare Cremonini
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Italian philosophy
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Renaissance philosophy
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1622 deaths
1580 births
Italian philosophers
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