William of Lucca

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William of Lucca (Guglielmo da Lucca) (died 1178) was an Italian theologian and scholastic philosopher. He taught at Bologna, in the third quarter of the twelfth century^[1].

He wrote a commentary on The Divine Names of Pseudo-Dionysius^[2], combining ideas from Gilbert de la Porrée with those of Eriugena^[3]. He is also the presumed author of Summa artis dialectice, a textbook of logic, influenced by Abelard^[4][5].

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1. ^ Jean Leclercq, The Renewal of Theology, p. 80, in Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, Carol Dana Lanham (editors), Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century (1991)
2. ^ ORB
3. ^ Peter Dronke, A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy (1988), p. 354.
4. ^ George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson, Stuart Shanker, Routledge History of Philosophy (1999), p. 175.
5. ^ Eleonore Stump, Boethius's in Ciceronis Topica (1988), p. 131.