GRICE E CORNUTO: ROMA ANTICA -- FILOSOFIA ITALIANA -- LUIGI SPERANZA

 

Grice e Cornuto: Roma antica – filosofia italiana – Luigi Speranza (Roma). Lucio Anneo Cornuto. A slave in Rome, he became one of the city’s leading intellectuals. A member of the porch. The name Anneo points to a connection of some kind with the family of Seneca. He taught rhetoric and philosophy, his pupils including Agathino, Petronio Aristocrate, Lucano, and Persio. In his will, Persio left Cornuto his books, which he accepted, and his money, which he rejected. He was sent into exile by Nerone. He wrote an influential commentary on Aristotle’s Categories. He argues that the categories reflect divisions within language, rather than within reality. In a different essay, the Epidrome, he surveys the myths and by means of linguistic analysis and allegorical interpretation he seeks to extract what he considers to be their true meaning.