Paolo della Pergola explained
Paolo della Pergola[1] (died 1455, Venice) was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and Occamist[2] logician. He was a pupil of Paul of Venice.[3]
Works
Paolo della Pergola's most important work was probably De sensu composito et diviso.[4] His logical works were printed early.[5]
He taught at the Scuola di Rialto from 1421 to 1454.[6] He was teacher and friend of the glassmaker Antonio Barovier.[7]
Among his pupils was also Nicoletto Vernia, a well known professor of philosophy in Padua.[8]
There is a memorial to him in San Giovanni Elemosinario, Venice.[9]
- Logica; and, Tractatus de sensu composito et diviso by Paolo della Pergola, edited by Mary Anthony Brown, Saint Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute, 1961.
External links
Notes and References
- Also: Paolo da Pergola, Paolo dalla Pergola, Paul of Pergula, Paul of Pergola, Paulus Pergulensis or Pergolensis, Paulus de Pergula.
- Ennio De Bellis, Nicoletto Vernia e Agostino Nifo: aspetti storiografici e metodologici, Congedo, 2003, p. 9.
- Web site: Text manuscripts/New items . 2007-01-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060613041248/http://www.textmanuscripts.com/home/archives/archivesdescription.php?m=107 . 2006-06-13 .
- Printed by 1494; it shares a title with a work of William of Heytesbury.
- Compendium logicae printed by Erhard Ratdolt in 1481; later in Venice as Compendium logicae; De sensu composito et diviso (1498); as Logica Magistri Pauli Pergolensis. 1510.http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it/scripts/iccu_ext.dll?fn=10&i=36208 His Dubia was printed in 1477.
- http://www.unive.it/media/allegato/download/Lettere/Materiale_didattico_Caracciolo/0607_cult_civilta_umanesimo_rinascimento/lineamenti_cult_civ_umanesimo_rinascim-parte2.pdf
- http://www.wga.hu/bio_m/b/barovier/biograph.html PDF
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- http://www.chorusvenezia.org/museo/elemos/2d/giovanni.htm San Giovanni Elemosinario
