Life
He was born in Rome. [1]
He was a lecturer at the Collegio Romano in the 1580s. He first taught De elementis, from 1585 to 1587, and then the three-year philosophy course from 1587 to 1590. After that he taught at Padua. [2]
His notes on the Posterior Analytics , generally Thomist, were used by Galileo. This occurred around 1588-1590, and it was through Vallius that Galileo learned the work of Jacopo Zabarella. [3] [4] It is now accepted that Vallius is the source of two logical treatises by Galileo. [5]
Vallius was plagiarized by Ludovico Carbone, in his 1597 Additamenta ad commentaria doctoris Francisci Toleti in logicam Aristotelis, which were Additions to the logic of Franciscus Toletus. [6]
The University of Parma is a public university in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It is organised in nine departments. As of 2016 the University of Parma has about 26,000 students.
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