Lodovico Castelvetro

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Read Next

Plato (left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508-11; in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican. Plato points to the heavens and the realm of Forms, Aristotle to the earth and the realm of things.

Plato and Aristotle: How Do They Differ?

Well-balanced of stones on the top of boulder

What’s the Difference Between Morality and Ethics?

9 Obscure Literary Terms

Aristotle (384-322 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist. One of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western thought, Aristotle established the foundations for the modern scientific method of enquiry. Statue

Philosophers to Know, Part I

Aristotle statue located at Stageira of Greece

Aristotle at 2,400

Discover

Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium

When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

Hindu Holi Festival celebrations with colored water, powder and colorful flower petals thrown over celebrants at a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India on March 24, 2021.

Holi: Festival of Colors

Common, or southern, cassowary (Casuarius casuarius).

8 Birds That Can’t Fly

Statue of Liberty in front of the skyline of Manhattan, New York City, New York.

Who Was the Woman Behind the Statue of Liberty?

Why Doesn’t Arizona Observe Daylight Saving Time?

Why Are There Only 28 Days in February?

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in 2019. (Meghan Markle, British royalty)

6 Things You Should Know About Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

Lodovico Castelvetro: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born	c.1505 • Modena • Italy
Died	February 21, 1571 • Switzerland
Notable Works	“La poetica di Aristotele vulgarizzata”
Subjects Of Study	literary criticism • literature • poetry • unity • Aristotle

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655

Jean Chapelain

French author

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Monti, detail of an oil painting by A. Appiani; in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome

Vincenzo Monti

Italian author

Attilio Bertolucci

Italian poet, literary critic and translator

Melchiorre Cesarotti

Italian author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

William Congreve

English dramatist

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

François Mauriac

French author

Martin Opitz

German poet

Eric Bentley

American critic, translator, and stage director

Lucius Livius Andronicus

Roman author

George Of Trebizond

Byzantine humanist

Robert Fitzgerald

American poet

Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Edmund Gosse

British critic and writer

Lodovico Castelvetro: Facts & Related Content

Facts

Related Biographies