PHILOSOPHER

Pietro Pomponazzi

1462 - 1525

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Pietro Pomponazzi (16 September 1462 – 18 May 1525) was an Italian philosopher. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pietro Pomponazzi has received more than 88,661 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Pietro Pomponazzi is the 351st most popular philosopher (down from 346th in 2019), the 978th most popular biography from Italy (down from 977th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Italian Philosopher.

Pietro Pomponazzi was a Renaissance philosopher who is most famous for his theory that the soul is mortal.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Pietro Pomponazzi ranks 351 out of 1,267Before him are Richard Rorty, Hipparchia of Maroneia, Gaius Musonius Rufus, Günther Anders, Maurice Halbwachs, and Otto Neurath. After him are Isaac Abarbanel, Haji Bektash Veli, Juan Luis Vives, Jacques Rancière, Strato of Lampsacus, and Edward de Bono.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1462, Pietro Pomponazzi ranks 4Before him are Louis XII of France, Piero di Cosimo, and Joanna la Beltraneja. After him are Johannes Trithemius, Mihnea cel Rău, Pietro Lando, Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Edzard I, Count of East Frisia, and John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln. Among people deceased in 1525, Pietro Pomponazzi ranks 7Before him are Thomas Müntzer, Cuauhtémoc, Jakob Fugger, Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, Huayna Capac, and Andrea della Robbia. After him are Florian Geyer, Eleanor of Viseu, Michael Sittow, Charles IV, Duke of Alençon, Fernando d'Ávalos, and Davide Ghirlandaio.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pietro Pomponazzi ranks 978 out of 5,161Before him are Italo Svevo (1861), Venantius Fortunatus (530), Lucilla (150), Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400), Italo Gariboldi (1879), and Scribonia (-70). After him are Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma (1870), Gerard of Cremona (1114), Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608), Giovanni Giolitti (1842), Barbara Strozzi (1619), and Sextus Pompey (-67).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Pietro Pomponazzi ranks 30Before him are Antonio Negri (1933), Giovanni Gentile (1875), Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484), Aristoxenus (-360), Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646), and Gaius Musonius Rufus (25). After him are Brunetto Latini (1220), Bartolus de Saxoferrato (1313), Giles of Rome (1243), Thomas Cajetan (1469), Gianni Vattimo (1936), and Lucilio Vanini (1585).