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Italian school (philosophy)

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The first apartment was adorned with pictures from the later Italian school, by masters whose grace he used highly to commend. As I, with some noblemen, had taken private lessons of him, we were permitted to draw here, and we often penetrated into his adjoining private cabinet, which contained at the same time his few books, collections of art…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Autobiography of Goethe Truth and Poetry
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I used to be told that Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans--almost natives of our country, who in old times had been called the Italian school of philosophers--never doubted that we had souls drafted from the universal Divine intelligence. I used besides to have pointed out to me the discourse delivered by Socrates on the last day of his life upon the immortality of the soul--Socrates who was pronounced by the oracle at…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
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There is a passage on this subject in the eighth book of St. Augustine's "City of God," wherein he distinguishes between the various schools of philosophy. "The Italian school," he says, "had as its founder Pythagoras of Samos, who, it is said, originated the very word 'philosophy.' Before his time those who were regarded as conspicuous for the praiseworthiness of their lives were called wise men, but he, on being…
Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum
Names Italian school.
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Xenophanes

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Part of Eleatics.

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