 The decades around 1500 saw the high tide of the Averroist current, as far as we can discern today (Schmitt 1979; Akasoy &amp; Giglioni 2013). This is indicated by several pieces of evidence: the frequent usage of the term averroista; the significant number of authors who adopt the unicity thesis in one of their works; the composition of super-commentaries on Averroes’ commentaries; and, finally, the fact that the correct interpretation of Averroes’ philosophical position became a matter of dispute among his partisans (e.g. between Nifo, Trombetta, Zimara, Pomponazzi and Prassicio). The unicity thesis lost its appeal as late as in the middle of the sixteenth century, with the advent of new trends of Aristotelianism that gave alternative explanations of universal intellection (e.g. by Melanchthon, Zabarella and Suarez) (Hasse 2016, ch. 5).