Paolo della Pergola

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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]

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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]

Notes

  1. ↑ Also: Paolo da Pergola, Paolo dalla Pergola, Paul of Pergula, Paul of Pergola, Paulus Pergulensis or Pergolensis, Paulus de Pergula.
  2. ↑ Ennio De Bellis, Nicoletto Vernia e Agostino Nifo: aspetti storiografici e metodologici , Congedo, 2003, p. 9.
  3. ↑ "Text manuscripts/New items". Archived from the original on 2006-06-13. Retrieved 2007-01-28.
  4. ↑ Printed by 1494; it shares a title with a work of William of Heytesbury.
  5. ↑ 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. His Dubia was printed in 1477.
  6. ↑ [ dead link ](PDF).
  7. ↑ PDF.
  8. ↑ Avery Robert Dulles, Princeps Concordiae: Pico della Mirandola and the scholastic tradition , Harvard University Press, 1941, p. 29.
  9. ↑ San Giovanni Elemosinario Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine


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