  It is perhaps significant that Patrizi's earliest works, produced while he was still in close contact with teachers and colleagues at Padua, reveal a far less critical view of Aristotle and his doctrines than his later writings would, generally attempting to utilize Plato and other earlier thinkers to complement rather than refute Peripatetic positions (see the article by F. Bottin in the Other Internet Resources).  In this regard, it is quite likely that Patrizi may be said to have undergone a philosophical development from an earlier, more sympathetic, view of Aristotle's philosophy to a more critical attitude as his familiarity with Platonic and other earlier sources increased and he became aware of the debates among the contemporary Aristotelians themselves, such as Pietro Pomponazzi and Agostino Nifo, over such basic doctrines as the immortality of the soul and the nature of the physical cosmos. Add to this the ongoing exchanges he had with thinkers committed to developing a philosophical and scientific method outside both the Platonic and Aristotelian “mainstreams” and it becomes clear why Patrizi came to play the major role he did in the move from an entrenched Peripatetic approach to the search for a “new” method which would come to characterize the leading philosophers and scientists of the Seventeenth Century and beyond.