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Beni, Paolo

Born: 1552–1553, Gubbio (Italy)

Died: 1625, Padua (Italy)

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Paolo Beni was an influential and controversial literary and philosophical theorist, whose main works were published in Italy in the first quarter of the seventeenth century. Born in Gubbio between 1552 and 1553, he entered the Jesuit order in the early 1580s but was forced to leave in 1593. From 1600 to 1623, he taught at the University of Padua as Professor of Humanities and Rhetoric. He died in Padua in 1625.

Beni is best known for his Anticrusca (Paolo Beni and Giovanni Battista Martini, Padua, 1612b), a polemical pamphlet against the Accademia della Crusca’s Vocabolario. Giovanni Alberti, Venice, 1612). His philosophical works deal with Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Poetics (In Aristotelis Poeticam commentarii. In Beniana, per Franciscum Bolzettam, Io. Baptista Martino thypographo, Padua, 1613b; In Aristotelis Poeticam commentarii. Io. Guerilium, Venice, 1622a; In Aristotelis libros Rhetoricum commentarii. Io. Guerilium, Venice, 1624; In Aristotelis libros Rhetoricum commentarii secundum, et tertium. Io. Guerilium, Venice, 1625) and with Plato’s Timaeus (In Platonis Timaeum…. ex typographia Gabiana. Rome, 1594). His various interests also included the exegesis of Latin authors, the question of the usefulness of history, and religious matters.

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    Sacchini, L. (2020). Beni, Paolo. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_711-1

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