Marius Nizolius

He considered rhetoric to be the central intellectual discipline, slighting other aspects of the philosophical tradition.

[4] His major work was the Thesaurus Ciceronianus, first published in 1535 in Brixen but not under this title, and running into many further editions.

It was adopted by Renaissance extremists who considered that writing in Latin could only be correct within this restricted vocabulary.

[5] His Antibarbarus philosophicus (original title De veris principiis et vera ratione philosophandi contra psudophilosophos, Parma, 1553) was edited by Leibniz in 1670 with an important Preface.

[6] It was a reply in a controversy with Marco Antonio Maioragio (1514-1555),[7] and going back to a dispute from the mid-1540s over the Paradoxes of Cicero.