Joanna Papiernik is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lodz, Poland.

Deeply researched and filled with broad learning, this book should become part of the bookshelf of every scholar interested in the intellectual history of early modern Europe. Papiernik shows deftly that Italian thinkers of the fifteenth century explored the issue of the possible immortality of the human soul in original and lasting ways, often through seeing philosophy and religion as one unified enterprise.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Divine Light in the Human Soul and Its Affinity to Eternal Things – Antonio degli Agli’s On the Immortality of the Soul and His Other Works2. The Theory of Individual Immortality “Found” in Aristotle – The Treatise On the Immortality of the Soul by Leonardo Nogarola3. The Power of Authorities – Agostino Dati’s On the Immortality of the Soul4. The Continuation of the Compilatory Tradition – Giovanni Canali’s On the Immortality of the Soul5. Antonio degli Agli, De immortalitate animae6. Leonardo Nogarola, De immortalitate animaeNotesBibliographyIndex

Joanna Papiernik is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lodz, Poland.

Deeply researched and filled with broad learning, this book should become part of the bookshelf of every scholar interested in the intellectual history of early modern Europe. Papiernik shows deftly that Italian thinkers of the fifteenth century explored the issue of the possible immortality of the human soul in original and lasting ways, often through seeing philosophy and religion as one unified enterprise.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Divine Light in the Human Soul and Its Affinity to Eternal Things – Antonio degli Agli’s On the Immortality of the Soul and His Other Works2. The Theory of Individual Immortality “Found” in Aristotle – The Treatise On the Immortality of the Soul by Leonardo Nogarola3. The Power of Authorities – Agostino Dati’s On the Immortality of the Soul4. The Continuation of the Compilatory Tradition – Giovanni Canali’s On the Immortality of the Soul5. Antonio degli Agli, De immortalitate animae6. Leonardo Nogarola, De immortalitate animaeNotesBibliographyIndex

Joanna Papiernik is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lodz, Poland.

Deeply researched and filled with broad learning, this book should become part of the bookshelf of every scholar interested in the intellectual history of early modern Europe. Papiernik shows deftly that Italian thinkers of the fifteenth century explored the issue of the possible immortality of the human soul in original and lasting ways, often through seeing philosophy and religion as one unified enterprise.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Divine Light in the Human Soul and Its Affinity to Eternal Things – Antonio degli Agli’s On the Immortality of the Soul and His Other Works2. The Theory of Individual Immortality “Found” in Aristotle – The Treatise On the Immortality of the Soul by Leonardo Nogarola3. The Power of Authorities – Agostino Dati’s On the Immortality of the Soul4. The Continuation of the Compilatory Tradition – Giovanni Canali’s On the Immortality of the Soul5. Antonio degli Agli, De immortalitate animae6. Leonardo Nogarola, De immortalitate animaeNotesBibliographyIndex