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Angelus de Aretio
Alternative names
Angelus de Aritio
Disciplines
Logic
Medicine
Natural Philosophy
Philosophy
Period of activity
1303 - 1338
Teaching locations
Bologna
- Referred to as auditor et repetitor of Gentile da Cingoli in Codex Strozziano 99 (cf. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Strozzi 99, f. 42r).
- A commentary on Perihermeneias, datable between 1303 and 1311, is attributed to him (cf. Tabarroni, 1992a).
- Listed among the logicians or philosophers, along with Antonio da Parma, Taddeo da Parma, and Giacomo da Piacenza, whose medical questions have been preserved (cf. Agrimi-Crisciani 1992).
- It is likely that Angelo spent his entire career in Bologna with little travel, as additional records confirm his presence there throughout the early 14th century
- 1311: a document records his presence in Bologna, concerning a sentence requiring him to pay a fine of 250 lire to the inquisitor Nicola di Ripatransone O.P. (cf. Piana 1966: 227, n. 5).
- 1313: Angelo is mentioned as doctor loyce when a student of him was assaulted at his house near the chapel of S. Salvatore.
- 1314: Angelo is referred to as magister in a medical dispute: Quaestio magistri Angeli (cf. Vat. lat. 2418, ff. 176va-177rb).
- In a 1315 complaint filed by Angelo himself, he is identified as doctor phisice facultatis.
- In 1316, Angelo received 237 lire in compensation from Manfredo da Parma, then the inquisitor.
- 1320: another assault on one of his students occurred under his residence.
- 1324: on May 18, he was appointed to lecture on philosophy with a salary of 100 lire paid by the municipality of Bologna. He’s listed among the salaried professors alongside Cecco d’Ascoli and Mondino de’ Liuzzi.
- 1328: on February 13, he was appointed for a second lecture.
- 1338: recorded in Bologna when he and other masters (including Matteo da Gubbio) swore allegiance to Taddeo Pepoli, agreeing not to leave the studium during its temporary relocation to Castel S. Pietro.
- Agrimi J. – Crisciani C., Medicina e logica in maestri bolognesi tra due e trecento: problemi e temi di ricerca, in “L’insegnamento della logica a Bologna nel XIV secolo”, Bologna 1992: 189-191.
- Grabmann M., Der Bologneser Averroist Angelo d’Arezzo (ca. 1325), in “Mittelalterliches Geistesleben. Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Scholastik und Mystik”, München 1936: 261–71.
- Robert A., Noétique et théorie de la connaissance chez Angelo d’Arezzo. Edition de deux questions du ms. Vat. Lat. 6768, “Mediaevalia Philosophica Polonorum” 37/3, 2008: 95–167.
- Piana C., Nuove ricerche su le Università di Bologna e di Parma, Quaracchi 1966.
- Tabarroni A., I commenti di Gentile da Cingoli e Angelo d’Arezzo sul “Peryermenias” e i maestri di logica a Bologna all’inizio del XIV secolo, in “L’insegnamento della logica a Bologna nel XIV secolo”, Bologna 1992: 393–440.
- 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: 607–608.
Jacopo Lohs