William of Lucca

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William of Lucca (Guglielmo da Lucca) (died 1178 AD) was an Italian theologian and scholastic philosopher. He taught at Bologna, in the third quarter of the twelfth century. [1]

He wrote a commentary on The Divine Names of Pseudo-Dionysius, [2] combining ideas from Gilbert de la Porrée with those of Eriugena. [3] He is also the presumed author of Summa artis dialectice, a textbook of logic, influenced by Abelard. [4] [5]

Notes

  1. Jean Leclercq, The Renewal of Theology, p. 80, in Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham (editors), Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century (1991)
  2. ORB
  3. Peter Dronke, A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy (1988), p. 354.
  4. George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson, Stuart Shanker, Routledge History of Philosophy (1999), p. 175.
  5. Eleonore Stump, Boethius's in Ciceronis Topica (1988), p. 131.

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