Paolo da Pergola

Paolo da Pergola^[1] (died 1455, in Venice) was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and Occamist^[2] logician. He was a pupil of Paul of Venice.^[3]

His most important work was probably De sensu composito et diviso.^[4] His logical works were printed early.^[5]

He taught at the Scuola di Rialto from 1421 to 1454.^[6] He was teacher and friend of the glassmaker Antonio Barovier.^[7]

Among his pupils was also Nicoletto Vernia, a well known professor of philosophy in Padua.^[8]

There is a memorial to him in San Giovanni Elemosinario, Venice.^[9]

Works

• Logica; and, Tractatus de sensu composito et diviso by Paolo della Pergola, edited by Mary Anthony Brown, Saint Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute, 1961.

Notes

1. Paolo della Pergola, Paul of Pergula, Paul of Pergola, Paulus Pergulensis or Pergolensis, Paulus de Pergula
2. Ennio De Bellis, Nicoletto Vernia e Agostino Nifo: aspetti storiografici e metodologici, Congedo, 2003, p. 9.
3. : 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.
4. Printed by 1494; it shares a title with a work of William of Heytesbury.
5. 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. His Dubia was printed in 1477.
6. (PDF), note p.7 (in Italian).
7. PDF.
8. Avery Robert Dulles, Princeps Concordiae: Pico della Mirandola and the scholastic tradition, Harvard University Press, 1941, p. 29.
9. San Giovanni Elemosinario