Gian Giorgio Trissino is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Gian Giorgio Trissino as Italian Renaissance humanist.
Gian Giorgio Trissino was born at Vicenza in 1478. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Recovered classical texts and the printing press reopened questions that had been treated as settled for centuries.
Among his principal works are L'Italia liberata dai Goti and Sofonisba. A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from Italy matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Gian Giorgio Trissino died in 1550, aged 72. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Notable work: L'Italia liberata dai Goti
- Notable work: Sofonisba
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