Campanella, Tommaso Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
... Aristotle . In 1616 he also wrote a defence of Galileo Galilei ( Apologia pro Galileo , 1622 ), a classic plea for freedom of thought. In Atheismus trionphatus ( 1631 ) he mounted arguments that would triumph over atheism, but the rationalistic deism that he proposed led to the tract being denounced as proclaiming ‘atheism triumphant’. Dizionario biografico degli italiani ; John M. Headley Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World (1997); G. Ernst , Religione, ragione e natura: Studi su Tommaso Campanella...
Marlowe, Christopher Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
... Edward II ( c. 1592 , an influence on Shakespeare's Richard II ), and Doctor Faustus ( c. 1594 ). The power and beauty of his blank verse is evident also in his poem Hero and Leander (published in 1598 ). A controversial figure because of his homosexuality and alleged atheism, Marlow died in an inn brawl. Dictionary of National Biography...
Dolet, Étienne Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...Psalms and of Platonic dialogues into French, editions of classical Latin literature, and the works of his friends Rabelais and Clément Marot . Dolet was imprisoned on at least four occasions, once for killing a painter and three times as a suspected atheist; the charge of atheism arose from his sympathy for the scepticism of classical antiquity and from publications deemed to be heretical, including his Cato christianus ( 1542 ) and his edition of the pseudo-Platonic dialogues Axiochus ( 1544 ), which denied the immortality of the soul and advocated...
Malatesta, Sigismondo Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...marriages; for her sake he became a poet, exalting her as Dante did Beatrice, and in 1456 , seven years after the death of his second wife, he married her. As for blasphemy, Malatesta was certainly not pious, but he was not enough of a speculative intellectual to contemplate atheism; the theological significance of the enigmatic design of the Tempio Malatestiano is not clear, and although some of its decorative features are classical rather than Christian, their meaning is insufficiently understood to sustain a charge of impiety. M. Tabanelli Sigismondo...
God Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...heterodox views: Nicholas of Cusa 's emphasis on the immanence of God in the world introduced a strain of pantheism into Christian thought that was later developed by Giordano Bruno , who was burnt because of his belief in a god who was the world-soul. The first stirrings of atheism are heard in the sixteenth century, and the robust tradition of detesting the God in whom one perforce believed emerged in literary figures such as Rabelais and Christopher Marlowe . The god of the Renaissance was a father, and in most theological circles God the Father was...
