Giorgio Raguseo

Giorgio Raguseo (1580 to 1622) was an Italian philosopher, theologian and orator from the Republic of Venice. Born in Dubrovnik, then Ragusa, as an illegitimate child, he was forced to beg until a gentleman took him to Venice and gave him an education. He became a priest and taught at the University of Padua, where he had a famous dispute with his colleague Cesare Cremonini on the nature of the elements, the value of interpretations of Aristotle, and educational questions. His known work is the Latin Peripateticae disputationes, printed in Venice by Pietro Dusinelli in 1613.