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Luigi Speranza -- Grice e Sestio: la ragione conversazionale del fallito morale – Roma – filosofia italiana – Luigi Speranza (Roma). Filosofo italiano. He founds his own school in Rome that draws heavily on La Setta di CROTONE and IL PORTICO. S. preaches an ascetic way of life, which includes vegetarianism, and exhorts his followers – whom he called ‘Sestiani’ – to reflect at the end of each day on their moral failings – “if any.” Upon his death, his son, also called Quinto S., inherits the school, but it does not long survive him. One of the Sestiani is SOTIONE, who becomes Seneca’s tutor – Seneca himself is influenced by the school’s teachings for some time. Nome compiuto: Quinto Sestio.