In the history of philosophy, Alphonsus Maria de Liguori is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Alphonsus Maria de Liguori as Italian Catholic bishop and saint (1696-1787).
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was born at Naples in 1696. His recorded nationality is the Kingdom of Naples.
The seventeenth century built the machinery of public intellectual life - societies, journals, correspondence networks - and reputations could be made at a distance.
Alphonsus Maria de Liguori is described as composer, catholic priest and writer.
His principal work is Tu scendi dalle stelle. The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from the Kingdom of Naples matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 1787, at 91. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Notable work: Tu scendi dalle stelle
- Worked as composer, Catholic priest and writer
