Francesco Piccolomini (1523–1607) was senior chair of natural philosophy at the

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from 1560–1598, moving there from previous professorial positions at the

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, and

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. His best-known work, ''Universa philosophia de moribus'' (A Comprehensive Philosophy of Morals), systematizes and extends Aristotle's work on ethics and politics. He sparred intellectually with his fellow Aristotelian professor

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. In his time, Piccolomini was one of the most revered professors of philosophy in Italy and the most highly paid at Padua.

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called him "a veritable sea and ocean of all learning".

Works

* ''Universa philosophia de moribus'' (1583) * ''Comes politicus pro recta ordinis ratione propugnator'' (1596) * ''Librorum ad scientiam de natura attinentium'' (Venència, 1596) * ''De rerum definitionibus'' (1600) * ''Discursus ad universam logicam attinens'' (1606)

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