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Camillo Delminio, Giulio

Born: 1480

Died: 15 May 1544

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Giulio Camillo was a poet and a scholar active in the first half of the sixteenth century. Involved against Erasmus of Rotterdam in the controversies concerning imitatio, he sided with those who advocated Cicero as the only model of language for Latin prose. Camillo made himself a reputation as the proponent of a method for inventing tropes based on the topics of argumentation. He became even more well-known as the designer of a theater that organized the entirety of what there is to be known according to a syncretic model that harmonized Christian, Neoplatonic, Hermetic, and Kabbalistic ideas, and that provided users with a repository of language enabling them to express any aspect of reality with single words and phrases gathered from the writings of classic poets and orators.

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Patino Loira, J. (2022). Camillo Delminio, Giulio. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14169-5_321

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