Paolo Da Pergola
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Paolo da 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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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
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, a well known professor of philosophy in Padua. There is a memorial to him in
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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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pergola, Paola da 1455 deaths Italian philosophers Scholastic philosophers Italian logicians 15th-century Italian mathematicians Italian Renaissance humanists Year of birth unknown