In the history of thought, Cristoforo Landino is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Cristoforo Landino as humanist, philosopher and writer from Italy.
Cristoforo Landino was born at Florence in 1424. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Recovered classical texts and the printing press reopened questions that had been treated as settled for centuries.
The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from Italy matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Cristoforo Landino died in 1498, aged 74. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
