Paganino Gaudenzi

Paganino Gaudenzio or Gaudenzi (3 June 15953 January 1649) was a Swiss philosopher and Catholic theologian of the Renaissance.

Biography Born on 3 June 1595 in Poschiavo (Grisons), which was the main urban center in northeastern Valtellina. He enrolled at the University of Basel on 29 May 1612. He attended the Universities of Basel, Regensburg and Tübingen, where he graduated with a doctorate in law and theology. He was pastor in Mese and in his native Poschiavo. In 1616 he converted to Catholicism: for this reason he was imprisoned in Chiavenna in June 1617. He then went to Rome, and received a pension from the Pope. In 1625 he was appointed professor of Greek at the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1628 he was appointed Professor of humanities at the University of Pisa. He held this office until his death. He died in Pisa on 3 January 1649. A prolific author, he wrote nearly forty volumes both in Latin and Italian. He corresponded with important cultural personalities of his time, including Alessandro Tassoni, Gabriello Chiabrera, Giovanni Battista Doni and Francesco Sforza Pallavicino.

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