Peter of Capua
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Peter of Capua[1] (d.1214) was an Italian theologian and scholastic philosopher, and a Cardinal[2] and papal legate.
After a being a teacher at the University of Paris, he was employed by Pope Innocent III as legate to France from 1198. He made a truce between Richard I of England and Philip II of France, in 1198/9.[3]
He then took part in the Fourth Crusade. While in Constantinople he acquired relics, including the purported body of St. Andrew, which he brought back to Amalfi.[4]
A Life was written by Durand of Huesca.[5] Another Peter of Capua the Younger was in Paris in the early thirteenth century.[6]
[edit] Works
- Alphabetum in artem sermocinandi
- Summa[7]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Peter Capuano, Pietro Capuano or Caputo, Pietro Cardinale di Capua, Petrus Capuanus
- ^ From 1193.[1], as Pietro Caputo.
- ^ [2], [3], [4]
- ^ [5]
- ^ [6]
- ^ He died 1242, and is responsible for the Rosa Alphabetica.
- ^ [7]
