Paolo da Pergola

Paolo da Pergola[1] (died 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]

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Notes

  1. ^ Paolo della Pergola, Paul of Pergula, Paul of Pergola, Paulus Pergulensis or Pergolensis, Paulus de Pergula
  2. ^ [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.
  3. ^ Printed by 1494; it shares a title with a work of William of Heytesbury.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ [3](PDF), note p.7 (in Italian).
  6. ^ [4], PDF.
  7. ^ San Giovanni Elemosinario