Francesco de Vieri

Francesco de' Vieri, also known as Verino the Second (1524 to 1591), was an Italian philosopher and the nephew of Francesco de' Vieri, called Verino the First. Like his namesake ancestor, he was a professor of logic and philosophy at the University of Pisa and took an active part in the Accademia Fiorentina. His colleagues criticized him for his longing for a new Platonic Academy in the manner of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, and his main opponent was the Pisan philosopher Girolamo Borro. His surviving work, the Latin Liber, in quo a calumnijs detractorum philosophia defenditur, & eius praestantia demonstratur, printed in Rome in 1586, defends philosophy against its detractors and sets out its excellence.