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Paolo della Pergola

Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and logician (died 1455) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Paolo della Pergola[1] (died 1455, Venice) was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and Occamist[2] logician. He was a pupil of Paul of Venice.[3]

Works

Paolo della Pergola's most important work was probably De sensu composito et diviso.[4] His logical works were printed early.[5]

He taught at the Scuola di Rialto from 1421 to 1454.[6] He was teacher and friend of the glassmaker Antonio Barovier.[7]

Among his pupils was also Nicoletto Vernia, a well known professor of philosophy in Padua.[8]

There is a memorial to him in San Giovanni Elemosinario, Venice.[9]

  • 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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