Giulio Cesare Vanini

See also: Vanini (homonymy)

Lucilio Vanini , known as Giulio Cesare Vanini , born in 1585 with Taurisano, close to Lecce and carried out to Toulouse the February 9th 1619, is a Philosophe and Italian Naturaliste .

Lucilio Vanini studied philosophy and theology with Rome, and the right to Naples where it obtains its license in 1606. it continues its studies of jurisprudence to Padoue where it enters the orders. It goes successively in Suisse, in Holland, France and England where it abjures the Catholicisme in 1612. In 1614, it is imprisoned 49 days to have attacked the Église Anglican.

On its return to Lecce, it becomes again catholic and is devoted to the physical studies in vogue under the Renaissance. It tries to teach with Genoa, but, after a short stay with Geneva, it turns over once more to France, 1615, to Lyon where it publishes, in an effort in order to clear itself of the charge of atheism, the Amphitheatrum aeternae Providentiae Divino-Magicum .

The following year, he is chaplain of the marshal François de Bassompierre with Paris where he publishes the dialogs De Admirandis Naturae Reginae Deaeque Mortalium Arcanis (Marvellous Secrecies of nature, the queen and the goddess of the mortals). Although the definitions of God are somewhat pantheist there, the work is sufficiently orthodoxe. The arguments are however mainly ironic and cannot be regarded as the expression of its true opinions. After one second edition, the work, initially approved by two doctors of Sorbonne, is subjected to a re-examination at the conclusion which he is condemned to the flames.

Vanini is withdrawn prudently with Toulouse where it starts to teach. Taking the nickname of Pomponio Uciglio he becomes tutor at Mister de Berthier, tutor practitioner the day and libertine the night. In front of the many rumors against protected sound, Berthier the congédie. Vanini finds refuge at Adrien de Montluc-Montesquiou, count of Caraman. They knew each other great evenings organized by the marshal of Bassompierre to Paris.

About Capitole at the Parliament of Toulouse, one worried about the disorders to the law and order and his influence on youth. Decree in November 1618 by the Enquiry, it is shown to be atheistic and to have manners against-nature. The Catel prosecutor had great difficulty to prove that he was heretic so much the defense of Lucilio showed his devotion with the Catholic church. After a length deliberated, Lucilio Vanini, said Pomponio Uciglio, was convinced of blasphemy, was impiété, atheism, sorcery and corruption of manners. Condemned to have the cut language, to be strangled then flaring the February 9th 1619 on the place of Saline, the howl of Vanini was, memory of Toulouse most horrible.

Theory

Although intellectually lower than Giordano Bruno, this free-thinker, like, belonged to those to him which, by attacking the former scholastic, contributed to provide the foundations of modern philosophy. Its wandering life, its tragic death, like its party taken antichrétien, is not without pointing out Giordano Bruno.

The Of admirandis naturae begin again, in a prose simple and elegant, interpretation naturalist of the supernatural phenomena that Pietro Pomponazzi - that Vanini calls “ magister drive, divinus praeceptor drive, nostri speculi princeps Philosophorum main, my divine tutor, the first of the philosophers to our image” - their had given in his incantationibus . Vanini referred there even to Cardano, Scaligero and with other thinkers of the 16th century. “God acts on the under-lunar beings (let us hear “the human beings”) while making use of the skies as average” gives a natural origin and a rational explanation to the alleged supernatural phenomena, whereas astrology was also considered a science; “the Supreme Being gives warnings to the men and especially to the sovereigns with the example of which the world conforms, when dangers threaten them”.

But the bases of the phenomena supposed supernatural also concern imagination human, able sometimes to modify the appearance of reality external like the founders of the revealed religions, Moïse, Jesus, Mahomet and the ecclesiastics impostors who impose false beliefs to obtain richness and be able and controlling them, interested in the maintenance of religious beliefs for better dominating the people, as already Machiavel taught it.

While still following Pomponazzi and its interpretations of the texts aristotelicians, changed comments of Alexandre d' Aphrodisie, he denies the immortality of the heart. The works of Vanini do not show it, strictly speaking, like atheist: if he denies the validity of the revealed religions, he accepts God like being absolute and regards nature as his demonstration. Its philosophical design is thus connected with the Libertinisme and the pantheist naturalism.

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