Agostino Steuco

Italian bishop, philologist and philosopher

1497 – 1548 ·

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Born: 1497, Gubbio
Died: 1548, Venice
Citizenship: Republic of Venice
Educated at: University of Bologna
Position held: diocesan bishop
Religion: Catholic Church
birth name: Guido
described by source: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Contemporaries of Erasmus (vol. 3), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
family name: Steuco
given name: Agostino
instance of: human
languages spoken, written or signed: Latin
religious order: Augustinians
sex or gender: male
significant person: Erasmus

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Agostino Steuco (in Latin Agostinus Steuchus or Eugubinus; c. 1497 – 1548) was an Italian humanist, Old Testament scholar, Counter Reformation polemicist and antiquarian. He was born at Gubbio in Umbria. He discoursed on the subject of perennial philosophy and coined the term philosophia perennis.

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