Theophrastus_redivivus
Theophrastus redivivus (meaning "The revived Theophrastus") is an anonymous[1][2] Latin-language book published on an unknown date sometime between 1600 and 1700.[3] The book has been described as "a compendium of old arguments against religion and belief in God"[1] and "an anthology of free thought."[4]
The work comprises materialist and skeptical treatises from classical sources as Pietro Pomponazzi, Lucilio Vanini, Michel de Montaigne, Machiavelli, Pierre Charron, and Gabriel Naudé.[2][5] According to Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World, the Theophrastus redivivus is "a comprehensive statement of atheism and materialism that seems, in effect, timeless. Unlocalized in time or place, Latin confers a kind of scandalous universality or ubiquity on the most heterodox propositions."[2]