Paul of Venice

Paul Venetus (Italian Paolo Nicoletti da Udine, and Paul de Venetiis, German Paul of Venice, * 1369 or 1372 in Udine, † June 15, 1429 in Padua ) was an Italian philosopher and theologian.

Paul Venetus 1387 was a member of the Order of St. Augustine 's Convent in Padua in December. He studied in Venice, Padua and 1390-1393 in Oxford. After returning from Oxford, he probably took his teaching career in 1395 in Padua and wrote in this period ( 1395-96 ) his Logica parva (also called Summulae ), which, together with its logica magna under the title logica duplex, established his fame and made him one of the most influential logician of the late Middle ages. He taught in Padua first as lector and since 1408 as a Doctor of Artes and theology. Between 1405 and 1410 he was mainly involved in natural philosophy: in this time he wrote a commentary on Aristotle's Physics and the first two of six books of his Summa naturalium ( completed by 1417 ). After he was exiled in 1420 from presumably political reasons for heresy from the Republic of Venice, he taught in Siena ( 1420 ), where he was employed in the same year as provincial of his order, and in Bologna or Perugia (1424? ) And then again in 1427 / 28 in Siena. As the return to Padua, he was allowed, he took up teaching there again, but he died soon after his return.

Paul Venetus belonged to a philosopher to Padua School of Averroism. As a logician he contributed significantly to anchor the " deterministic " logic of the Oxford school in Italian teaching.

In the older literature, Paul Venetus is often equated with Paul Pergolensis († 1455 ). Because a 1498 given out in Venice from Ottaviano Scoto as a work of Paul Venetus treatise De compositione mundi, the ( 1282 ) provides only a Latin processing Ristoro d' Arezzo Composizione del mondo, parallels to Dante Alighieri Quaestio de aqua et terra has, Paul has Venetus sometimes viewed in the Dante research in discussions of the authenticity of the quaestio as their author. In Dante research one also has him occasionally for the author of a partly Latin, partly Italian, drawn, previously unreleased Dante commentary of the 15th century held the other hand, Paul Albertini ( 1458 professor of philosophy at Bologna, † 1475 ) was attributed by others.

Text output

• Paul Venetus: Super Sentences primum Johannis de Ripa lecturae abbreviatio: Prologue, ed. Francis Ruello, Florence 1980, ISBN 88-222-2937-1
• Logica Magna. Prima pars: Tractatus de necessitate et contingentia futurorum Pauli Veneti. Ed. with an English translation and notes by C.J.F. Williams. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991 ( Classical and medieval logic texts 8).