Paul Venetus

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Paulus Venetus (Italian Paolo Nicoletti da Udine ; also Paulus de Venetiis , German Paulus von Venezia ; * 1369 or 1372 in Udine ; † June 15, 1429 in Padua ) was an Italian philosopher and theologian.

Paulus Venetus became a member of the Augustinian convent in Padua in December 1387 . He studied in Venice , Padua and between 1390 and 1393 in Oxford . After returning from Oxford, he probably took up teaching in Padua in 1395 and wrote during this time (1395-96) his Logica parva (also called Summulae ), which, with his logica magna under the title logica duplex , established his fame and made him one of the most influential logicians of the late Middle Ages. He taught in Padua first as a lector and from 1408 as a doctor of artes and theology. Between 1405 and 1410 he dealt mainly with natural philosophy: during this time he wrote a commentary on the physics of Aristotle and the first two of six books of his Summa naturalium (completed by 1417). After he was banned from the Republic of Venice in 1420 for heresy presumably for political reasons , he taught in Siena (1420), where he was appointed provincial of his order in the same year, and in Bologna or Perugia (1424?) And then again in 1427 / 28 in Siena. When he was allowed to return to Padua, he resumed teaching there, but died soon after his return.

As a philosopher Paulus Venetus belonged to the Paduan school of averroism . As a logician, he made a significant contribution to anchoring the “terministic” logic of the Oxford school in Italian teaching.

In older literature, Paulus Venetus is often equated with Paulus Pergolensis († 1455). Because a treatise De compositione mundi published in Venice by Ottaviano Scoto in 1498 as a work by Paulus Venetus , which only offers a Latin adaptation of Ristoro d'Arezzo's Composizione del mondo (from 1282), shows parallels to Dante Alighieri's Quaestio de aqua et terra , Paulus Venetus has sometimes been seen as the author of the Quaestio in Dante research when discussing the authenticity of the Quaestio . In Dante research he has also occasionally been taken to be the author of a previously unpublished commentary on Dante from the 15th century, partly in Latin and partly in Italian, which others ascribed to Paulus Albertini (1458 professor of philosophy in Bologna, † 1475).

Text output

  • Paulus Venetus: Super primum Sententiarum Johannis de Ripa lecturae abbreviatio: prologus , ed. Francis Ruello, Florence 1980, ISBN 88-222-2937-1
  • Logica Magna. Prima pars: Tractatus de necessitate et contingentia futurorum Pauli Veneti . Ed. with an English translation and notes by CJF Williams . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1991 (Classical and medieval logic texts 8).

literature

  • Alessandro D. Conti: Esistenza e verità: forme e strutture del reale in Paolo Veneto e nel pensiero filosofico del tardo medioevo. Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, Rome 1996 (= Nuovi studi storici, 33)
  • Percy Gothein : Paolo Veneto e Prosdocimo de 'Conti, maestri padovani di Lodovico Foscarini. In: La Rinascita 5 (1942), pp. 236-243.
  • Felice Momigliano: Paolo Veneto e le correnti del pensiero religious e filosofico nel suo tempo. Turin 1907 (excerpt from: Atti dell'Accademia di Udine , Series III, Volume XIV)
  • AR Perreiah: A Biographical Introduction to Paul of Venice. In: Augustiniana 17 (1967), pp. 450-461.
  • Giuseppe Rossi: Alcune ricerche su Paolo Veneto. GB Paravia, Turin 1904.

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SURNAME Paul Venetus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Venetus, Paulus; Paolo Nicoletti da Udine; Paulus de Venetiis; Paul of Venice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian philosopher and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1369 or 1372
PLACE OF BIRTH Udine
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1429
Place of death Padua