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Biblicism, Materialism, and the New Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2023
When the Italian Aristotelian Cesare Cremonini died in 1631, he had these words engraved on his tombstone: Totus Cremonius hic iacet (“Here lies all of Cremonini”). At least that is what was reported by libertine traditions, which had a penchant for inventing epitaphs.1 The claim that “all of Cremonini” was lying in his grave – that is, that not only his body but also his soul – might well have been a consequence of his Aristotelianism, which sometimes argued that Alexander of Aphrodisias was right in considering the soul to be mortal.
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