Paolo da Pergola

Paolo da Pergola [Paolo della Pergola, Paul of Pergula, Paul of Pergola, Paulus Pergulensis or Pergolensis, Paulus de Pergula] (d.1455 in Venice) was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and logician. He was a pupil of Paul of Venice. [ [http://www.textmanuscripts.com/home/archives/archivesdescription.php?m=107] : "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."]

His most important work was probably "De sensu composito et diviso". [Printed by 1494; it shares a title with a work of William of Heytesbury.] His logical works were printed early. ["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. [http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it/scripts/iccu_ext.dll?fn=10&i=36208] . His "Dubia" was printed in 1477.]

He taught at the Scuola di Rialto from 1421 to 1454. [ [http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:vz3olOZn-Z4J:www.unive.it/media/allegato/download/Lettere/Materiale_didattico_Caracciolo/0607_cult_civilta_umanesimo_rinascimento/lineamenti_cult_civ_umanesimo_rinascim-parte2.pdf] (PDF), note p.7 (in Italian).] He was teacher and friend of the glassmaker Antonio Barovier. [ [http://www.artnet.com/library/00/0064/T006472.asp] , [http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/economicHistory/pdf/Epstein%20Documents/51-TransferringTechnicalKnowledge.pdf PDF] .]

There is a memorial to him in San Giovanni Elemosinario, Venice. [ [http://www.chorusvenezia.org/museo/elemos/2d/giovanni.htm San Giovanni Elemosinario ] ]

References

* "Logica ; and, Tractatus de sensu composito et diviso" by Paolo della Pergola (1961) Mary Anthony Brown

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