Marcantonio Genua (born Marco Antonio Passeri; 1491–1563) was a

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Aristotelian philosopher who taught at the

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. He was a teacher and uncle of the great Renaissance philosopher Giacomo Zabarella.

References

* Nadler, Steven M., ''A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy '', Blackwell 2002. 1563 deaths 16th-century Italian philosophers 16th-century Italian male writers Aristotelian philosophers 1491 births {{italy-philosopher-stub