Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)

Cesare Cremonini (philosopher)

Cesare Cremonini, sometimes Cesare Cremonino (22 December 1550 – 19 July 1631), was an Italian professor of natural philosophy, working rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism. He signed his Latin texts Cæsar Cremoninus (and its genitive form Cæsaris Cremonini at the start of some titles), or Cæsar Cremonius.

Considered one of the greatest philosophers in his time, patronized by Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, corresponding with kings and princes who had his portrait, paid twice the salary of Galileo Galilei, he is now more remembered as an infamous side actor of the Galileo affair, being one of the two scholars who refused to look through Galileo's telescope.