The Philosopher

Antonio Rocco

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Nationality:: Italian
Schools:: Peripatetic
Period:: 17th-century

The synopsis

Antonio Rocco (1586–1653) was an Italian priest, philosopher, and writer. He graduated under Cesare Cremonini. He is best known for his satirical dialogue, L'Alcibiade, fanciullo a scola, written in 1630 and published in 1652. The work was immediately suppressed and largely destroyed, with only ten copies surviving attempts to destroy the entire print run. Its survival led to its translation and publication in Italian in 1862, which again elicited condemnation and destruction. He taught philosophy and wrote various works on Aristotelian philosophy.

The works

In universam philosophiam naturalem Aristotelis paraphrasis textualis exactissima; necnon quaestiones omnes desiderabiles ad mentem Joannis Duns Scoti subtilis

In Aristotelis Logicam paraphrasis textualis, & quaestiones ad mentem Scoti. Una cum introductione in principio, & tractatu de secundis intentionibus

Esercitationi filosofiche di d. Antonio Rocco filosofo peripatetico. Le quali versano in considerare le positioni, & obiettioni, che si contengono nel Dialogo del signor Galileo Galilei Linceo contro la dottrina d'Aristotile

Animae rationalis immortalitas simul cum ipsius vera propagatione ex semine, via quadam sublimi peripatetica, non hactenus post Aristotelem signata vestigijs, exercitationis philosophicae illibataeque veritatis gratia indagatur ab Antonio Rocco. Philosop

L'Alcibiade fanciullo a scola

De Scurcula Marsorum... In logicam, atque universam naturalem philosophiam Aristoteles paraphrasis textualis exactissima; nec non quaestiones desiderabilis ad mentem Joannis Duns Scoti doctoris subtilis. Quod quidem opus est lectura eiusdem Antonij habit