Dominic of Flanders

Dominicus de Flandria, O. P. (Dominic of Flanders)
Born Baudouin Lottin
ca. 1425
French Flanders
Died July 16, 1479
Florence
Other names Dominique de Flandre, Domenico di Fiandra
Era Middle Ages, Renaissance
Region Western philosophy
School Scholasticism, Thomism
Main interests
Metaphysics, Natural Philosophy

Dominic of Flanders (Latin: Dominicus de Flandria, French: Dominique de Flandre) (ca. 1425–1479) was a French-Flemish Dominican philosopher and Scholastic author, known to have been a renowned Thomist. His commentaries on Aristotle and on Thomas Aquinas were frequently printed, the most famous being his commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. This Commentaria is commonly known to have been dedicated to Lorenzo de’ Medici.[1]

Life

Little is known of Dominic's early life. He was born Baudouin Lottin, in the north of France near what is today the Belgian border, in either Merville or Merris, a few kilometers away from Bailleul.[2] The political circumstances of the region at the time are such that it is possible to deem him neither a Flemish nor a French philosopher. While born in present-day France (in the region of Lille), it was indeed the County of Flanders during the 15th century, a bilingual region which politically belonged to the Kingdom of France.[3]

Frontispiece (excerpt), Questiones super XII libros Metaphysica, Köln 1621.

Baudouin studied at the University of Paris, becoming a Master of Arts at some time before 1452. At Paris he studied with John Versor, and would receive philosophical training according to the trend of "Albertism." The first known date in the life of Baudouin is September 7, 1461—the day he took the Dominican habit (as well as the name, Dominic of Flanders, following the practice of the Order) at Bologna. Dominic's intellectual home would remain in Italy. At Bologna, it is likely that he studied under Peter of Bergamo (†1482), where he would switch from Albertist views to Thomism.[4] He taught at Bologna from 1462 to 1470. He went on to teach in Florence and Pisa, by the invitation of Lorenzo de' Medici, then returned to Bologna from 1475 to 1476. He finally returned to Florence, where he died of the plague on July 16, 1479.[5]

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References

  1. Kristeller, 1974, p. 49, 137.
  2. Gauthier, "Préface," in S. Thomae de Aquino, Opera Omnia, Iussu Leonis XIII P. M. Edita, Vol. 45, Sentencia Libri de Anima, Rome/Paris, 1984, p. 33*.
  3. Steel, 2011, p. 970–2
  4. Colosio, 1961, p. 120, n. 7.
  5. Schikowski, 1940, p. 170.
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