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Theophrastus redivivus (meaning "The revived Theophrastus") is an anonymous[1][2] Latin-language book published on an unknown date sometime between 1600 and 1700.[3] The book has been described as "a compendium of old arguments against religion and belief in God"[1] and "an anthology of free thought."[4]
The work comprises materialist and skeptical treatises from classical sources as Pietro Pomponazzi, Lucilio Vanini, Michel de Montaigne, Machiavelli, Pierre Charron, and Gabriel Naudé.[2][5] According to Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, the Theophrastus redivivus is "a comprehensive statement of atheism and materialism that seems, in effect, timeless. Unlocalized in time or place, Latin confers a kind of scandalous universality or ubiquity on the most heterodox propositions."[2]
- ^ a b Hecht, Jennifer Michael (2004). Doubt: A History. HarperOne. pp. 325–326. ISBN 0-06-009795-7.
- ^ a b c MacPhail, Eric (2014). "Atheism". In Kallendorf, Craig (ed.). Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World. doi:10.1163/9789004271296_enlo_B9789004271029_0146. ISBN 9789004265721.
- ^ Hall, H. Gaston (1982). A Critical Bibliography of French Literature; Volume III A: The Seventeenth Century Supplement. Syracuse University Press. pp. 369, ISBN 0-8156-2275-9.
- ^ Craig, Edward (1998). Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Routledge. pp. 375, ISBN 0-415-07310-3.
- ^ Hunter, Michael. Wootton, David (1992). Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment. Oxford University Press. pp. 33, ISBN 0-19-822736-1.