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(Cesare), Italian philosopher, b. Cento, Ferrara, 1550, was profe or of philosophy at Padua from 1591 to 1631, when he died. A follower of Aristotle, he excited suspicion by his want of religion and his teaching the mortality of the soul. He was frequently ordered by the Jesuits and the Inquisition to refute the errors he gave currency to, but he was protected by the Venetian State, and refused. Like most of the philosophers of his time, he distinguished between religious and philosophic truth. Bayle says. “ Il a pa é pour un esprit fort, qui ne croyait point l’immortal ité de l’âme.” Larou e says, “On peut dire qu’il n’était pas chrétien. ” Ladvocat says his works “contain many things contrary to religion.”