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Marsilius of Padua

American  
[mahr-sil-ee-uhs] / mɑrˈsɪl i əs /

noun

  1. c1280–1343?, Italian scholar and political theorist.

Marsilius of Padua British  
/ mɑːˈsɪlɪəs /

noun

  1. Italian name Marsiglio dei Mainardini. ?1290–?1343, Italian political philosopher, best known as the author of the Defensor pacis (1324), which upheld the power of the temporal ruler over that of the church

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The ablest writer of the Ghibelline party was Marsilius of Padua.

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

Had his activity confined itself to these subjects, he would be hardly more remembered than perhaps Marsilius of Padua.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von

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