Marius Nizolius

Marius Nizolius (Italian: Mario Nizolio; 1498–1576) was an Italian humanist scholar, known as a proponent of Cicero. He considered rhetoric to be the central intellectual discipline, slighting other aspects of the philosophical tradition.[1][2] He is described by Michael R. Allen as the heir to the oratorical vision of Lorenzo Valla, and a better nominalist.[3]

  1. ^ Brian Vickers, In Defence of Rhetoric (1988), p. 181.
  2. ^ Charles B. Schmitt, Quentin Skinner (editors), Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy, p. 734.
  3. ^ In Richard Popkin (editor), The Pimlico History of Western Philosophy (1999), p. 297.

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