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Vital du Four (
Bazas
Bazas (; oc-gsc, Vasats) is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.
Geography
Bazas stands on a narrow promontory above the Beuve valley 60 km/37 mi southeast of Bordeaux and 40 km/25 mi southwest of ...
, 1260-
Avignon
Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region of So ...
, 1327) was a French
Franciscan
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theologian and scholastic philosopher, and
prior
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of
Eauze
Eauze (; Gascon: ''Eusa'') is a commune in the Gers department in southwestern France.
History
Located in the heart of south-west France, 130 kilometers from the Spanish border, Eauze is originally a proto-Basque city that became Roman. It was t ...
.
He became
Cardinal
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Animals
* Cardinal (bird) or Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of cardinal in the family Cardinalidae
**''Cardinalis cardinalis'', or northern cardinal, the ...
in 1312 and
bishop of Albano
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Under c ...
in 1321.
Register of the Grey Friars of London - De Ordine Sancti Francisci , British History Online
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Works
* ''Quaestiones disputate de rerum principio'', wrongly attributed to 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 ...
in: ''Quaestiones disputatae De rerum principio, tractatus De primo rerum omnium principio'', novis curis edidit Marianus Fernandez Garcia, Quaracchi, 1910, pp. 1–624.
Studies
* John F. Lynch, ''The Theory of Knowledge of Vital du Four'', St. Bonaventure, Franciscan Institute Publications, 1972.
Notes
External links
Franaut entry
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1260 births
1327 deaths
French Franciscans
Scholastic philosophers
14th-century French cardinals
Cardinal-bishops of Albano
French philosophers
French male writers
14th-century philosophers
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