Dominic of Flanders
Dominicus de Flandria, O. P. (Dominic of Flanders) | |
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![]() Flanders (seated) depicted inQuestiones super XII libros Metaphysica(Köln, 1621) | |
Born | Baudouin Lottin ca. 1425 |
Died | 16 July 1479 |
Other names | Dominique de Flandre, Domenico di Fiandra |
Era | Middle Ages,Renaissance |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Scholasticism,Thomism |
Main interests | Metaphysics, Natural Philosophy |
Dominic of Flanders(Latin:Dominicus de Flandria,French:Dominique de Flandre) (ca. 1425–1479) was aFrench-FlemishDominicanphilosopher andScholasticauthor, known to have been a renownedThomist.His commentaries onAristotleand onThomas Aquinaswere frequently printed, the most famous being his commentary on Aristotle’sMetaphysics.ThisCommentariais commonly known to have been dedicated toLorenzo de’ Medici.[1]
Life
[edit]Little is known of Dominic's early life. He was born Baudouin Lottin, in the north of France near what is today the Belgian border, in either Merville or Merris, a few kilometers away fromBailleul.[2]The political circumstances of the region at the time are such that it is possible to deem him neither a Flemish nor a French philosopher. While born in present-day France (in the region ofLille), it was indeed theCounty of Flandersduring the 15th century, a bilingual region which politically belonged to theKingdom of France.[3]
Baudouin studied at theUniversity of Paris,becoming a Master of Arts at some time before 1452. At Paris he studied withJohn Versor,and would receive philosophical training according to the trend of "Albertism."The first known date in the life of Baudouin is 7 September 1461 — the day he took the Dominican habit (as well as the name, Dominic of Flanders, following the practice of the Order) at Bologna. Dominic's intellectual home would remain in Italy. At Bologna, it is likely that he studied underPeter of Bergamo(†1482), where he would switch from Albertist views to Thomism.[4]He taught at Bologna from 1462 to 1470. He went on to teach in Florence and Pisa, by the invitation of Lorenzo de' Medici, then returned to Bologna from 1475 to 1476. He finally returned to Florence, where he died of the plague on 16 July 1479.[5]
Works
[edit]- Summa philosophiae sermocinalis(no longer extant)
- Quaestiones in Analytica priora(no longer extant)
- Quaestiones articulatae super libros Analyticorum posteriorum
- Super praedicamenta
- Expositio super tract. Thomae de Aquino De Fallaciis
- Quaestiones super VI principia(no longer extant)
- Tractatus de modalibus(no longer extant)
- Commentarium in Summulas Petri Hispani
- Tractatus de suppositionibus
- Questiones in libros Physicorum(no longer extant)
- Recollectio super libros De Anima
- Questiones super XII libros Metaphysica, seu Summa Divinae Philosophiae
- Summa philosophiae moralis(no longer extant)
- Quaestiones quodliberales(no longer extant)
- Epistulae II ad Laurentium Petri de Medicis
Bibliography
[edit]- Bonino, S.-T. “L’école thomiste au XVe siècle.”Rivista teologica di Lugano5 (2000): 223–234.
- Colosio, O. P., I. “La «Tabula Aurea» di Pietro da Bergamo.”Divus Thomas64 (1961): 120–32.
- Garcia, B., “Interiority and Human Experience: Dominicus de Flandria on the Interior Senses.”Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval22 (2015): 219–37.
- Kaeppeli, O. P., T.Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevi,Vol. I. Romae ad S. Sabinae, 1970, 315–318.
- Kristeller, P. O. “Thomism and the Italian Thought of the Renaissance.” InMedieval Aspects of Renaissance Learning,edited and translated by E. Mahoney, 29–91. Durham, 1974.
- Mahieu, L.Dominique de Flandre (15e siècle): Sa Métaphysique.Paris: Vrin, 1942.
- Meersseman, O. P., G. “Een Vlaamsch Wijsgeer: Dominicus van Vlaanderen.”Thomistisch Tijdschrift voor Katholiek Kultuurleven1 (1930): 385–400.
- Schikowski, U. “Dominicus de Flandria O. P. (†1479) Seine Schriften, Seine Bedeutung.”Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum10 (1940): 169–221.
- Steel, C. “From Siger of Brabant to Erasmus: Philosophy and Civilization in the Late Medieval Low Countries,” inPhilosophy and Theology in the Long Middle Ages: A Tribute to Stephen F. Brown,edited by K. Emery, Jr., R. L. Friedman, & A. Speer, 953–979. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2011.
- Verde, O. P., A. F. "Domenico di Fiandra: Intransigente Tomista non Gradito nello Studio Fiorentino."Memorie Domenicane93 (1976): 304–321.
See also
[edit]- Jean Capréolus(†1444)
- Henry of Gorkum(†1431)
- Heymeric de Campo(†1460)
- Peter of Bergamo(†1482)
- Paulus Barbus (Soncinas)(†1494)
- Sylvester Mazzolini(†1523)
- Thomas de Vio Cajetan(†1534)