# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marsilius-of-padua
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:55:05.293Z

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description: "He wrote a treatise so combustible that popes spent decades trying to suppress it. Marsilius argued the church had no right to wield political power — a claim that made him a heretic in the 14th century and a prophet to reformers two hundred years later."
tagline: "Italian philosopher (1275–1342)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Marsilius Mainardi was born around 1275 in Padua, trained in medicine, and moved through several professions before turning to political philosophy. Around 1324 he completed Defensor pacis, a systematic demolition of papal claims to supreme authority in both spiritual and temporal matters — what the church called its "plenitude of power." The work was condemned almost immediately; Marsilius fled to the court of Ludwig of Bavaria, where he lived under imperial protection. His arguments — that the church should be subordinate to secular rulers, that Scripture alone held final authority — would lie dormant for generations. When the Reformation erupted in the sixteenth century, Calvin and Luther found in his pages a blueprint they could use.