Matija Ferkić or Matija Frkić ( it, Matteo Ferchi, en, Matthew Ferchi (Ferkich); 1583 – 1669) was a Croatian

Franciscan Conventual The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (OFM Conv) is a male religious fraternity in the Roman Catholic Church that is a branch of the Franciscans. The friars in OFM CONV are also known as Conventual Franciscans, or Minorites. Dating back to ...

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from

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. He was from the island of

( it, Veglia). He was a

Scotist Scotism is the philosophical school and theological system named after John Duns Scotus, a 13th-century Scottish philosopher-theologian. The word comes from the name of its originator, whose ''Opus Oxoniense'' was one of the most important ...

, and wrote a ''Vita et apologia Scoti'', a life of

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. He taught at the

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for 35 years, from 1629. He published the works of

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Works

* ''Apologiae pro Ioanne Duns Scoto doctore subtili libri tres : in Ioannem Fridericum Matenesium, in Abrahamum Bzouium Polonum, in Paulum Iouium Nouocomensem'', Bologna, typ. Sebastiano Bonomii, 1620. * ''Vita Ioannis Dunsii Scoti'', Bologna, typis N. Tebaldini, 1622; Napoli, typ. Giandomenico Roncalioli, 1629. * ''Istri seu Danubii ortus aliorumque fluminum ab Aristotele in primo Meteoro inductorum. Accessit Lacus Asphaltitis confirmatio'', Padova, ex typ. B. Carectoni, 1632. * ''Vestigationes peripateticae'', Padova, typ. P. Frambotti, 1639. * ''De Fabulis palaestini stagni ad aures Aristotelis, peripateticorum principis'', Padova, typ. Giambattista Pasquati, 1641. * ''Osservationi sopra il Goffredo del signor

Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...

'', Padova, typ. Giambattista Pasquati, 1642. * ''De Personis producentibus Spiritum Sanctum'', Padova, 1644 * * ''Defensio vestigationum peripateticorum ab offensionibus Belluti et Mastrii'', Padova, typ. Giambattista Pasquati, 1646. * ''Epitome theologicum M.F. Veglensis ... ex Magistro Sententiarum

Petrus Lombardus Peter Lombard (also Peter the Lombard, Pierre Lombard or Petrus Lombardus; 1096, Novara – 21/22 July 1160, Paris), was a scholastic theologian, Bishop of Paris, and author of '' Four Books of Sentences'' which became the standard textbook of ...

] et ... Jo. [Duns] Scoto, a M.P.M. Rusca ... evulgatum'', 4 vol., Padova, 1647. * ''Oratio in Ioannem Dunsium Scotum Doctorem Subtilem declamata in Universitate Patavina die tertia novembris 1634'', ed. Antonino Poppi, "La santità di Giovanni Duns Scoto nel solco di Francesco d'Assisi e Antonio di Padova", ''Il Santo. Rivista antoniana di storia, dottrina, arte'' 33/1 (1993), 121-133.

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Matija Frkić - an interpreter and critic of Tasso
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferchius 1583 births 1669 deaths Conventual Friars Minor Scholastic philosophers 17th-century Croatian Roman Catholic priests Croatian theologians Croatian philosophers Scotism Italian people of Croatian descent