Remigio dei Girolami (1235–1319) was an

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Dominican theologian. He was an early pupil of

Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, OP (; it, Tommaso d'Aquino, lit=Thomas of Aquino; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest who was an influential philosopher, theologian and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism; he is known wi ...

. His ''Tractatus de bono communi'' of 1302 is a significant work of political thought. Remigio was able to adapt the political thought of Aquinas, which emphasized monarchy, to the communal regimes of Italy. Two of his works, the ''Divisio scientie'' and ''Contra falsos ecclesie professores'', discuss music. He thought the church represented all human sciences, including the musical sciences that formed part of the

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. The musical element (''modulatio'') of these sciences referred to

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s, preaching, and church order.

References

* Charles Davis, "Remigio de' Girolami and Dante: A Comparison of Their Conceptions of Peace," Studi danteschi 36 (1959): 105-36. * Charles Davis, ''An Early Florentine Political Theorist: Fra Remigio dei Girolami'', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 104 (1960), 667; reprinted in Dante's Italy, 198-223. Philadelphia, 1984. * Charles Davis, "Remigio de' Girolami O.P. (d. 1319): Lector of S. Maria Novella in Florence," in Le scuole degli ordini mendicanti (secolo XIII-XIV), 281-304. Todi, 1978.

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