Vera

Vera, AUGUSTO, philosopher, was born 4th May 1813 at Amelia in Umbria, studied at Rome and Paris, and, after teaching philosophy in France for thirteen years, lived in England from 1851 to 1860. From 1862 till his death (13th July 1885) he was professor at Naples University. He is known chiefly for his translations of Hegel's works into French, and for having introduced Hegel into Italy. But he wrote much on many subjects—on Plato's doctrine of immortality, on Strauss, on Cavour, on capital punishment, and, in English, an Inquiry into Speculative and Experimental Science (1856) and an Introduction to Speculative Logic and Philosophy (St Louis, 1875). See a monograph by Mariano (Naples, 1887).