Paolo della Pergola (died 1455, Venice) was an Italian humanist philosopher, mathematician and Occamist logician. He was a pupil of Paul of Venice.

Works

Paolo della Pergola's most important work was probably De sensu composito et diviso. His logical works were printed early.

Paolo della Pergola

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

Paolo della Pergola

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

Paolo della Pergola

There is a memorial to him in San Giovanni Elemosinario, Venice.

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

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External links

Lewis E 165 Compendium logicae (Compendium of logic) at OPenn

1455 deaths

Italian philosophers

Scholastic philosophers

Italian logicians

15th-century Italian mathematicians

Italian Renaissance humanists

Year of birth unknown