Remigio dei Girolami

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Remigio dei Girolami[1] (12351319) was an Italian Dominican theologian. He was an early pupil of Thomas Aquinas.

His Tractatus de bono communi of 1302 is a significant work of political thought.[2]

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  • Charles Davis, An Early Florentine Political Theorist: Fra Remigio dei Girolami, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 104 (1960), 667

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  1. ^ Remigio de’ Girolami, Remigio of Florence, Remigius of Florence, Remigius Florentinus, Remigius Clarus Hieronymeus Florentinus.
  2. ^ Between 1290 and 1320, the Dominican Remigio de' Girolami preached in Florence and composed the influential De bono communi during a struggle that pitted the Black Guelfs against the White Guelfs and Ghibellines. In the treatise, he emphasized that one must prefer public good to personal benefit.[1]

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