Paganino Gaudenzio or Gaudenzi (3 June 1595 – 3 January 1649) was a Swiss philosopher and Catholic theologian of the Renaissance.

Biography

Born on 3 June 1595 in Poschiavo (Grisons), which was the main urban center in northeastern Valtellina.^[1] He enrolled at the University of Basel on 29 May 1612. He attended the Universities of Basel, Regensburg and Tübingen, where he graduated with a doctorate in law and theology. He was pastor in Mese and in his native Poschiavo.^[1] In 1616 he converted to Catholicism: for this reason he was imprisoned in Chiavenna in June 1617.^[1] He then went to Rome, and received a pension from the Pope. In 1625 he was appointed professor of Greek at the Sapienza University of Rome.^[1] In 1628 he was appointed Professor of humanities at the University of Pisa.^[1] He held this office until his death. He died in Pisa on 3 January 1649.^[1] A prolific author, he wrote nearly forty volumes both in Latin and Italian.^[2] He corresponded with important cultural personalities of his time, including Alessandro Tassoni, Gabriello Chiabrera, Giovanni Battista Doni and Francesco Sforza Pallavicino.^[2]

Works

• De incertitudine doctrinae calvinianae tractatus. Rome: Facciotti. 1623.
• De Dogmatibus et ritibus veteris Ecclesiase haereticorum huius teporis, et praesertim Calvinianorum testimonia. Rome: Corbelletti. 1625.
• Paganini Gaudentii Declamationes octo: extra ordinem habitae anno MDCXXIX. Florence: apud S. Ciottum. 1630.
• In obitum sereniss.mæ reginæ Polonorum ode. Florence: ex officina Petri Nestij sub signo Solis. 1631.
• Contradizzione morale intorno al sospetto. Discorso di Paganino Gaudenzio, indrizzato al molt'illustre, e molt'eccellente sig.re il sig. Gio. Stefano Litta. Dottor di collegio, e gentilhuomo milanese. Pisa: nella stamperia di Francesco Tanagli. 1634.
• De Justinianaei saeculi moribus nonnullis. Florence. 1637.
• Multa mulctrae, apologeticon tyronis litterarii. Florence: Massa. 1638.
• De dogmatum Origenis cum philosophia Platonis comparatione, Salebrae Tertullianeae. De vita Christianorum ante tempora Constantini. Florence: typis nouis Amatoris Massae, & Soc. 1639.
• De Pythagorea animarum transmigratione. Pisa. 1641.
• Della Disunita Accademia accrescimento, operetta di Paganino Gaudentio, nella quale l'autore insieme difende alcuni istorici contra l'accuse d'Agostino Mascardi. Pisa: nella stamperia d'Amor Massi, e Lorenzo Landi. 1644.
• La Galleria dell'inclito Marino considerata vien dal Paganino con alcune composizioni dell'istesso Paganino. Pisa: per Ferdinando Chelli, e Francesco Stefanelli. 1648.

Notes

Bibliography

 This article incorporates public domain material from McClintock, John; Strong, James (1867–1887). Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. Harper and Brothers.

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• Brunelli, Giampiero (1999). "GAUDENZI, Paganino". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 52: Gambacorta–Gelasio 2 (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-8-81200032-6.
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• Del Soldato, Eva (2022). "Between Past and Present: Paganino Gaudenzi (1595–1649) and the Comparatio Tradition". Harmony and Contrast: Plato and Aristotle in the Early Modern Period. Oxford University Press. pp. 172–188. doi:10.5871/bacad/9780197267295.003.0009. ISBN 978-0-19-726729-5.