Marco Antonio Maioragio

Marcantonius Majoragio (1514–1555 ) was a writer and philosopher, active in Northern Italy during the Renaissance period.

Majoragio believed in Platonic Christianity, and thought that those who expressed contrary thoughts, that there was no after-life and the present material world was the only world that exists should be righteously condemned to the fate of having themselves burnt alive, and additionally those punished thus, to be in full consciousness during such an act.

Works Majoragio produced the following:

A 1546 work of criticism against Paradoxa Stoicorum A 1547 commentary on Aristotle's - Rhetoric. A 1552 commentary on Orator written by Cicero. A commentary on the first book of De Oratore written by Cicero, published 1587.