Agostino Steuco
The beginning of Steuco's preface to his work De perenni philosophia in the dedication copy for Pope Paul III. (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. Lat. 6377, fol.18r)
Agostino Steuco (Latin Augustinus Steuchus , nickname Eugubinus ; * 1496 or 1497 (?) In Gubbio , Umbria ; † March 18 (?) March 1548 in Venice ) was an Italian bishop , scholar and philosopher.
Steuco entered the order of the Augustinian Canons in Gubbio around 1512 . He particularly studied languages (Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopian) at the University of Bologna . From 1525 to 1529 he managed the library of Cardinal Domenico Grimani (1461–1523) in Venice. He then became prior in S. Marco. He wrote De perenni philosophia .
In 1538 he became Bishop of Kissamos (Crete) and on October 27, 1538 librarian of the Vatican Library . In 1546 he took part in the Council of Trent as a council father .
literature
- Theobald Freudenberger : Augustinus Steuchus from Gubbio, Augustinian canon and papal librarian (1497-1548), and his literary life's work . Münster: Aschendorff, 1935 (Würzburg, theol. Diss.)
- Charles B. Schmitt: Perennial Philosophy : From Agostino Steuco to Leibniz , in: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 27, 1966, pp. 505-532
- Ronald K. Delph: Valla Grammaticus, Agostino Steuco, and the Donation of Constantine , in: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Jan., 1996), pp. 55-77
- Norbert Werner: Agostino Steuco. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 1429-1430.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steuco, Agostino |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steuchus, Augustine; Eugubinus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian clergyman and bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1496 or 1497 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gubbio |
| DATE OF DEATH | around March 18, 1548 |
| Place of death | Venice |