Alessandro Piccolomini is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Alessandro Piccolomini as Italian writer and philosopher, titular archbishop of Patrae.
Alessandro Piccolomini was born at Siena in 1508.
Recovered classical texts and the printing press reopened questions that had been treated as settled for centuries.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
Alessandro Piccolomini died in 1579, aged 71. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
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