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Nifo, Agostino, approximately 1473-1545?

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Personal name headingNifo, Agostino, approximately 1473-1545?
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Variant(s)Nifo, Agostino, ca. 1473-1545?
Niphus, Augustinus, approximately 1473-1545?
Niphus, Eutychius Augustinus, Suesanus, approximately 1473-1545?
Niphus, Eutychus Augustinus, approximately 1473-1545?
Agostino, da Sessa, approximately 1473-1545?
Da Sessa, Agostino, approximately 1473-1545?
Sessa, Agostino da, approximately 1473-1545?
Birth date1473~
Death date1545?
Place of birthSessa Aurunca (Italy)
Profession or occupationPhilosophers
Found inHis Parva naturalia, 1523: t.p. (... Augustini Niphi) l. 2r (Eutychi Augustini Niphi ...)
Gentile, G. Encic. ital. scienze, 1929-39 (Nifo, Agostino, also Augustinus Niphus, b. ca. 1473, d. in 1538 or 1545)
Cosenza, M.E. Biog. bib. dict. Italian humanists, 1962 (Niphus, Augustinus, also Nifo, Agostino; b. 1462 or 1473, d. 1538, 1543, 1545 or 1546)
Adams (Niphus, Eutychius Augustinus, Suesanus)
Wellcome (Niphus, Augustinus, 1473?-1546)
Thorndike, L. Hist. magic experimental science, 1923-41: v. 5, p. 71 (Agostino Nifo, 1473-1546)
Mahoney, Edward P. Two Aristotelians of the Italian Renaissance, 2000: CIP t.p. (Agostino Nifo) pref. (ca. 1470-1538)
Ragionamenti di M. Agostino da Sessa, all'illvstriss. s. principe di Salerno, sopra la filosofia morale d'Aristotele, 1554.
Wikipedia, via WWW, January 31, 2019 (Agostino Nifo (Latinized as Agustinus Niphus or Augustinus Niphus; circa 1473-1538 or 1545) was an Italian philosopher and commentator; born at Sessa Aurunca near Naples; studied philosophy in Padua; lectured at Padua, Naples, Rome, and Pisa; in 1495 he produced an edition of the works of Averroes, with a commentary; his numerous commentaries on Aristotle were widely read and frequently reprinted, the best-known edition being one printed at Paris in 1645 in fourteen volumes)
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Associated languageita lat