Nifo, Agostino

Agostino Nifo is one of the few philosophers who have commented on all the logical works of Aristotle and one of the philosophers who have commented on the largest number of works of the Stagirite. Nifo’s reflection marked him in Renaissance thought as an important exponent of Aristotelianism, which he interpreted in an eclectic manner according to the principles of Averroism, Thomism, and Neoplatonism. In his 56 works, he made a fundamental contribution to sixteenth-century philosophy in the fields of logic, methodology, the doctrine of knowledge, the theory of the immortality of the soul, metaphysics, astrology, meteorology, natural philosophy, medicine, morals, and politics. He compared his ideas on these issues to those of some of the major thinkers of his time such as Pietro Pomponazzi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and Niccolò Machiavelli