Paolo da Pergola (died 1455,
Venice
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) was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and
Occamist logician. He was a pupil of
Paul of Venice
Paul of Venice (or Paulus Venetus; 1369–1429) was a Catholic philosopher, theologian, logician and metaphysician of the Order of Saint Augustine.
Life
Paul was born, according to the chroniclers of his order, at Udine, about 1369 and died at V ...
.
Work
Paolo da Pergola's most important work was probably ''De sensu composito et diviso''. His logical works were printed early.
He taught at the Scuola di Rialto from 1421 to 1454. He was teacher and friend of the glassmaker
Antonio Barovier.
Among his pupils was also
Nicoletto Vernia Nicoletto Vernia (c. 1420, in Chieti – October 31, 1499, in Vicenza) was an Italian Averroist philosopher, at the University of Padua.
Life
He studied at Pavia, under Paolo da Pergola in Venice, and with Gaetano da Thiene in Padua, graduating w ...
, a well known professor of philosophy in Padua.
There is a memorial to him in
San Giovanni Elemosinario
San Giovanni Elemosinario is a church of Venice, northern Italy, dedicated to Saint John the Almsgiver.
This church was founded in 1071, and was completely destroyed by the disastrous Rialto fire in 1514. The church was rebuilt by Antonio Abb ...
, Venice.
San Giovanni Elemosinario
Works
* ''Logica; and, Tractatus de sensu composito et diviso'' by Paolo della Pergola, edited by Mary Anthony Brown, Saint Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute, 1961.
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External links
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1455 deaths
Italian philosophers
Scholastic philosophers
Italian logicians
15th-century Italian mathematicians
Italian Renaissance humanists
Year of birth unknown