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  • MediaDB / «The great Italian atheist Vanini" Victor Rutenburg: download fb2, read online

    About the book: 1959 / The book is dedicated to the great Italian thinker, atheist philosopher of the early 17th century. Giulio Vanini. This book, for the first time in Russian literature, covers in detail the bold, talented criticism of religion and the church in the works of this scientist, his life full of struggle and hardship, and, finally, his tragic death at the stake. The author describes the historical situation in Europe and, in particular, in Italy in the 16th–17th centuries. introduces the reader to the main philosophical trends of this period, to the ideological struggle around the teachings of Vanini.