Paolo da Pergola
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Paolo da Pergola[1] (d.1455 in Venice) was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and logician. He was a pupil of Paul of Venice.[2]
His most important work was probably De sensu composito et diviso.[3]His logical works were printed early.[4]
He taught at the Scuola di Rialto from 1421 to 1454. [5] He was teacher and friend of the glassmaker Antonio Barovier.[6]
There is a memorial to him in San Giovanni Elemosinario, Venice.[7]
[edit] References
- Logica ; and, Tractatus de sensu composito et diviso by Paolo della Pergola (1961) Mary Anthony Brown
[edit] Notes
- ^ Paolo della Pergola, Paul of Pergula, Paul of Pergola, Paulus Pergulensis or Pergolensis, Paulus de Pergula
- ^ [1]: He became the first publicly paid lecturer in philosophy in Venice, where he was officially honored in a public ceremony. In 1448, he was offered a bishopric, which he refused, and at the end of his life he accepted the administration of the Church of Saint John Almoner.
- ^ Printed by 1494; it shares a title with a work of William of Heytesbury.
- ^ Compendium logicae printed by Erhard Ratdolt in 1481; later in Venice as Compendium logicae; De sensu composito et diviso (1498); as Logica Magistri Pauli Pergolensis. 1510.[2]. His Dubia was printed in 1477.
- ^ [3](PDF), note p.7 (in Italian).
- ^ [4], PDF.
- ^ San Giovanni Elemosinario
