Over the next several years ( 1529-33 ) Steuco wrote a series of polemical works against Luther and Erasmus, the latter of whom he accused of helping to foment the Protestant revolt against the Church.

The German philosopher stands in the tradition of this concordistic philosophy ; his philosophy of harmony especially had affinity with Steuco ’ s ideas.

Leibniz knew about Steuco ’ s work by 1687, but thought that De la Verite de la Religion Chretienne by Huguenot philosopher Phillippe du Plessis-Mornay expressed the same truth better.

Steuco ’ s influence can be found throughout Leibniz ’ s works, but the German was the first philosopher to refer to the perennial philosophy without mentioning the Italian.

** Agostino Steuco, Italian humanist scholar ( d. 1548 )

The term was first used by Agostino Steuco ( 1497 – 1548 ) who used it to title a treatise, De perenni philosophia libri X, published in 1540.

Agostino Steuco was the strongest defender of the tradition of the prisci theologica, and De perenni philosophia was the most sustained attempt at philosophical synthesis and harmony.

Steuco represents the liberal wing of 16 Century Biblical scholarship and theology, although he rejected Luther and Calvin.

In that he emphasises continuity over progress, Steuco ’ s idea of philosophy is not one conventionally associated with the Renaissance.

Steuco was strongly influenced by Iamblichus ’ s statement that knowledge of God is innate in all, and also gave great importance to Hermes Trismegistus.

Steuco ’ s perennial philosophy was highly regarded by some scholars for the two centuries after its publication, then largely forgotten until it was rediscovered by Otto Willmann in the late part of the 19 century.

More generally, this philosophical syncretism was set out at the expense of some of the doctrines included within it, and it is possible that Steuco ’ s critical faculties were not up to the task he had set himself.

Agostino Steuco ( in Latin Steuchus or Eugubinus ) ( 1497 – 1548 ), Italian humanist, Old Testament scholar, Counter Reformation polemicist and antiquarian, was born at Gubbio in Umbria.

His polemical and exegetical works attracted the notice of Pope Paul III, and in 1538 the pope made Steuco bishop of Chisamo on the island of Crete, and librarian of the papal collection of manuscripts and printed works in the Vatican.

While he never visited his bishopric in Crete, Steuco did actively fulfill his role as Vatican Librarian until his death in 1548.

This work has a slight polemical edge to it, as Steuco crafted a number of his arguments to lend support to several theological positions that had recently come under question in Italy by reformers and critics of the traditional Catholic faith.

In 1547 Steuco was sent by Paul III to attend the Council of Trent, where he could be counted upon to uphold papal prerogatives and authority.

Plato ’ s student Aristotle did not maintain his former teacher's geometric view of the elements, but rather preferred a somewhat more naturalistic explanation for the elements based on their traditional qualities.

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