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 ...
scholastic philosopher
Scholasticism was a medieval school of philosophy that employed a Organon, critical organic method of philosophical analysis predicated upon the Aristotelianism, Aristotelian categories (Aristotle), 10 Categories. Christian scholasticism eme ...
from
Krk
Krk (; it, Veglia; ruo, Krk; dlm, label= Vegliot Dalmatian, Vikla; la, Curicta; grc-gre, Κύρικον, Kyrikon) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kota ...
.
He was from the island of
Krk
Krk (; it, Veglia; ruo, Krk; dlm, label= Vegliot Dalmatian, Vikla; la, Curicta; grc-gre, Κύρικον, Kyrikon) is a Croatian island in the northern Adriatic Sea, located near Rijeka in the Bay of Kvarner and part of Primorje-Gorski Kota ...
( 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
Duns Scotus
John Duns Scotus ( – 8 November 1308), commonly called Duns Scotus ( ; ; "Duns the Scot"), was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher, and theologian. He is one of the four most important ...
. He taught at the
University of Padua
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for 35 years, from 1629.
He published the works of
Philip Faber
Philip Faber (Fabri) (1564, Spinata di Brisighella – Padua, 28 August 1630) was an Italian Franciscan theologian, philosopher and noted commentator on Duns Scotus.
Life
In 1582 he entered the Order of St. Francis ( Conventuals), at Cremona ...
.
Online PDF
Online PDF
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
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* ''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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External links
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Matija Frkić - an interpreter and critic of Tasso
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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