The Doctrine, Life, and Roman Trial of the Frisian Philosopher Henricus de Veno (1574?-1613)

Bibliographic Data

ID10413643
AuthorsChristoph Luthy (0000-0003-4711-1317, Radboud University Nijmegen, corresponding author), Leen Spruit (Sapienza University of Rome)
Year2003
Volume56
Issue4
Pages1112-1151
Publication date2003-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRenaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/1261981
OpenAlexW2328079317
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

This paper retraces the life of Henricus de Veno, professor of philosophy at the Frisian University of Franeker, summarizes his teaching, and documents the trial that was conducted against him by the Roman Inquisition in 1597-98. De Veno was probably the most innovative Dutch teacher of philosophy in the first years of the seventeenth century, as he combined the new Protestant metaphysics with a cosmology and physics inspired by Girolamo Cardano. Instead of admitting before his Calvinist colleagues that he had been in prison and had converted to Catholicism before the Roman Inquisition, he claimed to have obtained various university degrees abroad. His philosophical views and religious interests correspond to the Arminian demand for a libertas prophetandi and a certain doctrinal open-mindedness

Archaeology · Doctrine · Metaphysics · Prison · Protestantism · Theology · Classics · History · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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