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Soncino, Paolo Barbo

Born: ca. 1458

Died: 5 August 1495

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Paolo Barbò da Soncino was an Italian Roman Catholic priest, friar of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), Thomist philosopher, and Doctor of Theology (Kaeppeli T, Panella E (1970–1993) Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi, Rome, III, 203; IV, 218). His life and work fall within the ambit of Italian Renaissance Thomism of the fifteenth century. Among his masters were probably Peter Maldura of Bergamo (d. 1482) and Dominic of Flanders (d. 1479). His principal work, the exposition of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, proceeds from a particular synthesis of the Arabic commentator Averroes, Thomas Aquinas, Hervaeus Natalis (d. 1323), and John Capreolus (d. 1444). Soncinas’ work and position were frequently discussed from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century.

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Jindráček, E. (2019). Soncino, Paolo Barbo. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_325-3

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