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Anselmus de Guittis de Cumis
Alternative names
Anselmus Guittus de Cumis
Anselmus de Cumis
Anselmo da Como
Disciplines
Logic
Natural Philosophy
Period of activity
1325 - 1344
Teaching locations
Bologna
- 1333: acts as recollector of a disputed question (An poli mundi sint mobiles) presented in Bologna by Matheus Maei de Eugubio.
- 1335: engages in a disputation and a quodlibet in Bologna.
- 1344: serves as repetitor of a quaestio by Matheus Maei de Eugubio at the studium of the Dominicans.
- 1344: provides a solutio at the studium of the Franciscans.
- 1348: March, 7. He was mentioned as deceased in a document concerning his son Simone.
- Anselmus was not only a member of the philosophy faculty but also completed his medical studies (Kuksewicz 1965: 11).
- A physician by the name Anselmo de Cumis is attested in Vercelli in 1331. At an unspecified date, he is the promoter of the medical degree of Giovanni de Cazanis from Novara (Rosso 2010: 165).
- Cappelletti, L., Eternalismo e creazionismo in un maestro bolognese del XIV secolo: Anselmo da Como, in “Schede umanistiche” 1 (2005).
- Ermatinger, C. J., Averroism in Early Fourteenth Century Bologna, “Mediaeval Studies” 16 (1954)
- Kuksewicz, Z. ed., Averroisme Bolonais Au Xive Siècle: Edition De Textes, Wroclaw-Varsovie-Cracovie 1965.
- Kuksewicz, Z., De Siger de Brabant à Jacques de Plaisance. La Théorie de l’intellect chez les averroïstes latins du XIIIe et XIVe siècles, Wroclaw-Varsovie-Cracovie 1968.
- Kuksewicz, Z., L’évolution de l’averroïsme latin au XIVe siècle, in “Knowledge and the Sciences in Medieval Philosophy”, Helsinki 1990.
- Maier, A., Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des italienischen Averroismus, im XIV. Jh., in “Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken”, Rome 1944.
- Maier, A., Eine italienische Averroistenschule aus der ersten Haelfte des 14. Jahrhunderts, in “Die Vorläufer Galileis im 14. Jahrhundert“, Rome 1949.
- Maier, A., Die Bologneser Philosophen des 14. Jahrhunderts, in “Studi e memorie per la storia dell’Università di Bologna, Bologna 1956.
- Rosso, P., Studio e poteri. Università, istituzioni e cultura a Vercelli fra XIII e XIV secolo, Torino 2010.
Matteo Stettler