Paolo della Pergola (died 1455,

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) was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and Occamist logician. He was a pupil of

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Works

Paolo della Pergola's most important work was probably ''De sensu composito et diviso''. His logical works were printed early. He taught at the

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from 1421 to 1454. He was teacher and friend of the glassmaker

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. 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

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, Venice.San Giovanni Elemosinario
* ''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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pergola, Paola della 1455 deaths Italian philosophers Scholastic philosophers Italian logicians 15th-century Italian mathematicians Italian Renaissance humanists Year of birth unknown