Jerocades, Antonio

[Autom. eng. transl.] ANTONIO. - Literate, philosopher and educationalist, n. in Parghelia (Catanzaro) the 1 week 1738, m. in Tropea on November 25th 1805. He completed his studies in the seminary of Tropea and, ordained a priest, opened a school in his hometown in 1759: he taught there Latin, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, French, philosophy and mathematics. Around 1765 he moved to Naples, where he frequented the Genoese and his circle, and three years later he published the essay on human knowledge for the use of Paralia's youth (Naples 1768), in which knowledge was subdivided into the Vichian manner in philology , "Verbal science", and philosophy, "real science". From 1767 to 1770 he taught ideology in the Tuziano di Sora college, but for political and disciplinary reasons he was forced to leave his post, then moved back to Naples and then to Marseille, where he attended the Masonic circle. In 1776 he returned to Naples and opened a private school of philosophy and archeology that was very successful. He became friends with G. Filangeri and M. Pagano, and his ties with Neapolitan Freemasonry became ever closer.