Giulio Pace

Giulio Pace (1550 to 1635), also known as Julius Pacius of Beriga, was an Italian Aristotelian scholar and jurist born in Vicenza, who studied law and philosophy at Padua. Drawn to the Reformation, he was tried by the Inquisition, fled to Geneva and became a Protestant at Heidelberg. He taught in Geneva, Heidelberg, Sedan, Nimes, Montpellier and Valence and finally at Padua, where he held a post from 1621 until his death. His edition of Aristotle's Organon became the standard text, running to eleven editions between 1584 and 1623. He also wrote a pocket summary of the art of Ramon Llull in 1618 and 1619 that avoided alchemy and magic, and, though a Protestant, defended the claim of the Venetian Republic to dominion over the Adriatic Sea.