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Small 8vo, 144 x 91 mms., foliated 109 [110 111, with verso blank, woodcut on title-page of angel blowing a trumpet, early 19th century quarter calf, gilt rules on spine, olive morocco label, marbled boards. A very good copy. Veneto Paulo (c. 1370 - 1428) is said to have studied at Oxford, but he finished his doctorate at the University of Padua in 1405. Wikipedia asserts that his "philosophy has been categorised within the realist tradition of medieval thought. Following on from John Wycliffe and the subsequent Oxonians who followed him, Paul further developed this new brand of realism, and further renewed Walter Burley's opposition to nominalism. Paul's metaphysical theses are rooted fundamentally in Scotist thought. Duns Scotus maintained the doctrine of the univocity of being and the existence of the universal forms of objects outside of the person's mind. He also maintained Scotus' notion of the real identity and the formal distinction between essence and being, alongside the notion of "thisness" as the principle by which we individuate. Paul was also simultaneously influenced by other thinkers of the Scholastic period, including the Dominican thinkers Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas, and his fellow Augustinian, Giles of Rome. Paul also critically engaged with the works and doctrines of fourteenth-century nominalists such as William Ockham, John Buridan, and Marsilius of Inghen, and sometimes gauged these thinkers' theses against each other to undermine their positions." Alan R. Perreiah in Augustiniana Vol. 17 (1967), opens his biographical commentary stating that he "emerges a towering if tractable figure of 15th-century Italy. There can be little doubt that Paul of Venice spent approximately three years in England in the very early part of his academic life." His work is available in several English translations, most recently those by Alexander Broadie and George Edward Hughes in 1990. There were editions of this work published in 1559, 1565, 1572, 1580, 1586, and 1597, with OCLC locating only 8 copies in total, with the Folger having the only copy (1565) outside of Europe. Seller Inventory # 9959
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