Pedro da Fonseca (Latin, Petrus Fonsecae;

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, 1528 –

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, 4 November 1599) was a

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and

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

. His work on

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and

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made him known in his time as the Portuguese

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; he projected the ' Cursus Conimbricenses' realized by Manuel Góis and others.

Works

* ''Institutionum Dialecticarum''. Lisbon: 1564. * ''Commentariorum in Libros Metaphysicorum Aristotelis''. Rome: 1577. * ''Isagoge Philosophica.'' Lisbon: 1591.

External links

Pedro da Fonseca’s Isagoge Philosophica and the Predicables from Boethius to the Lovanienses João Madeira
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070206071502/http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/CVC/filosofia/ren13.html Page on Instituto Camões (pt)*
Scholasticon
by Jacob Schmutz 1528 births 1599 deaths 16th-century Portuguese Jesuits Portuguese philosophers Portuguese theologians Latin commentators on Aristotle People from Proença-a-Nova School of Salamanca {{Portugal-reli-bio-stub

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