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Aonio Paleario (c.
1500 –
July 3 1570),
Italian humanist and reformer, was born about 1500 at
Veroli, in the
Roman Campagna. Other forms of his name are Antonio Della Paglia, A. Degli Pagliaricci.
In
1520 he went to
Rome, where he entered the brilliant literary circle of
Leo X. When
Charles of Bourbon stormed Rome in
1527 Paleario went first to
Perugia and then to
Siena, where he settled as a teacher of Greek and Hebrew.
In
1536 his didactic poem in Latin
hexameters,
De immortalitate animarum, was published at
Lyon. It is divided into three books, the first containing his proofs of the divine existence, and the remaining two the
theological and
philosophical arguments for
immortality based on that postulate. The whole concludes with a
rhetorical description of the occurrences of the
Second Advent.
In
1542 a tract, written by him and entitled
Della Pienezza, sufficienza, et satisfazione della passione di Christo, or
Libellus de morte Christi (The Benefit of Christ's Death), was made by the Inquisition the basis of a charge of heresy, from which, however, he successfully defended himself. In Siena he wrote his
Actio in pontifices romanos et eorum asseclas, a vigorous indictment, in twenty testimonia, against what he now believed to be the fundamental error of the
Roman Church in subordinating
Scripture to tradition, as well as against various particular doctrines, such as that of
purgatory; it was not, however, printed until after his death (Leipzig, 1606).
In
1546 he accepted a professorial chair at
Lucca, which he exchanged in
1555 for that of Greek and Latin literature at
Milan. Here about
1566 his enemies renewed their activity, and in 1567 he was formally accused by
Fra Angelo the
inquisitor of Milan. He was tried at Rome, condemned to death in October 1569, and executed in July 1570.
An edition of his works (
Ant. Palearii Verulani Opera), including four books of
Epistolae and twelve
Orationes besides the
De immortalitate, was published at Lyon in 1552; this was followed by two others, at
Basel, and several after his death, the fullest being that of Amsterdam, 1696. A work, entitled
Benefizio di Cristo ("The Benefit of Christ's Death"), has been attributed to Paleario on insufficient grounds. Lives by Gurlitt (Hamburg, 1805); Young (2 vols., London, I860); Bonnet (Paris, 1862).
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