Fernando de Córdoba (philosopher)

Fernando de Córdoba (Córdoba, c.1422 - Rome c.1480) was a Spanish neo-Platonist philosopher.

Of extraordinary intelligence, at 20 years he dominated Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean and Arabic, and knew by heart the works of Plato, Aristotle, Hippocrates, Avicenna and other authors. He was also a musician, painter and civil law teacher.

In 1443 he was ambassador of John II of Castile to Alfonso the Magnanimous in his court of Naples. In 1445 he marched to Paris, where he aroused the admiration and envy of the doctors of the Sorbonne. It was claimed that such a learned man could not be more than the Antichrist.

Laurence Sterne mentions it in Tristram Shandy among the examples of children prodigy. Works Bibliography

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