Italian philosophy

Italy over a ages has had a vast influence on Western philosophy, beginning with the Greeks and Romans, together with going onto Renaissance humanism, the Age of Enlightenment and modern philosophy.

Medieval

Italian Medieval philosophy was mainly Christian, and specified several important philosophers and theologians such(a) as St Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas was the student of Albert the Great, a brilliant Dominican experimentalist, much like the Franciscan, Roger Bacon of Oxford in the 13th century. Aquinas reintroduced Aristotelian philosophy to Christianity. He believed that there was no contradiction between faith and secular reason. He believed that Aristotle had achieved the pinnacle in the human striving for truth and thus adopted Aristotle's philosophy as a model in constructing his theological and philosophical outlook. He was a professor at the prestigious University of Paris.