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Iacobus de Placentia

Alternative names

Giacomo da Piacenza

Giacomo di Regolo da Piacenza

Iacobus Bononiensis

Iacobus de Piacenza

Iacobus Placentinus

Iacobus de Reghallo

Iacobus Reguli de Placentia

Iacobus de Regulo

Jacques de Plaisance

Disciplines

Logic

Medicine

Natural Philosophy

Period of activity

1340 - 1347

Teaching locations

Bologna

  • 1338: listed among the scholars who swore allegiance to Taddeo Pepoli, pledging not to abandon the studium, which had been temporarily relocated to Castel San Pietro.
  • 1340: August, 24. Elected by the University of Arts and Medicine to teach logic and philosophy in the following academic year.
  • 1340: engaged in a disputation on a logical question, recorded in ms. Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Lat. VI.97 (2594), ff. 83va-85va.
  • 1342: May, 12. Re-elected to teach philosophy for the following academic year.
  • 1344: May, 13. Re-elected to teach philosophy for the following academic year (cf. Tabarroni 1992).
  • Colleague of (Sodalis) of Thomas de Cremona
    • To be distinguished from his namesake and contemporary (c. 1319, d. 16-10-1348), who was the physician of Charles Robert of Anjou, king of Hungary and Croatia from 1330 (Grmek 1990: 42-44; Tabarroni, Crisciani, and Lambertini 2015: 426).
    • Kuksewicz reports 1340-1347 as the date of activity at the University of Bologna  and notes that it is not excluded that his teaching activity had been longer (Kuksewicz 1968: 353). Elsewhere, he reports the dates 1340-1343 (Kuksewicz 1965: 191). The digital archive of Mirabile reports the period of activity as 1340-1348, but does so by ascribing the date of death of his namesake to Iacobus de Placentia.

     

     

    • Conti, A. D., Il commento di Giacomo da Piacenza all’«Isagoge» e alle «Categorie», in “L‘insegnamento della logica a Bologna nel XIV secolo”, Bologna 1992.
    • Crisciani, C. – Lambertini, R.– Tabarroni, A., Due manoscritti con questioni mediche: note e schede (prima metà del secolo XIV), in “Frontières des savoirs en Italie à l’époque des premières universités (XIIIe-XVe siècles)”, Roma 2015. 
    • Grmek, M. D., La vie mouvementée de Jacques de Plaisance, médecin du roi, lecteur universitaire et évêque de Zagreb, “Croatica Christiana periodica” 14 (1990).
    • Kuksewicz Z., Le commentaire sur le «De anima» de Jacobus de Placentia dans les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Jagellonne 656 et 742, in “Die Metaphysik im Mittelalter ihr Ursprung und ihre Bedeutung“, Berlin 1963.
    • Kuksewicz, Z. Les œuvres manuscrites d’un averroïste de Bologne: Jacobus de Placentia, “Rivista di filosofia neoscolastica“ 55 (1963).
    • Kuksewicz, Z. ed., Iacobus de Placentia, Lectura cum quaestionibus super tertium de Anima, Wroclaw 1967.  
    • Kuksewicz, Z. De Siger de Brabant à Jacques de Plaisance. La théorie de l’intellect chez les averroïstes latins des XIIIe et XIVe siècles, Wroclaw 1968.  
    • Lines, D., Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy. The University of Bologna and the Beginnings of Specialization, “Early Science and Medicine, A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period” 6 (2001).    
    • Maierù, A., L’insegnamento della logica a Bologna nel secolo XIV e il manoscritto antoniano 391, in “Rapporti tra le Università di Padova e Bologna“, Trieste 1988.    
    • Tabarroni, A., Notizie biografiche su alcuni maestri di arti e medicina attivi nello «studium» bolognese nel XIV secolo, in “L’insegnamento della logica a Bologna nel XIV secolo,Bologna 1992. 
    Matteo Stettler