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Jordanus de Tridentia
Alternative names
Giordano da Trento
Jordanus de Tridento
Jourdain de Trente
Disciplines
Medicine
Natural Philosophy
Period of activity
1322 - 1348
Teaching locations
Bologna
- 1322: May, 4. A person referred to as ‘magister Jordanus medicus et civis tridentinus’ appears as a witness to a document in which the bishop of Trento names two local personalities as his procurators.
- 1323: December, 6. A person by the name ‘magister Iordanus physicus’ is remembered among the ‘honorabili viri’ to whom the text of the trial to which Pope John XXII had subjected Louis the Bavarian was publicly read.
- 1348: July, 18. Jordanus is reported as already deceased in a testamentary document.
- For the period of activity, Glorieux suggests that Jordanus de Tridentia was active at the beginning of the 14th century (Glorieux 1971: 244).
- Ermatinger (1954: 55) also erroneously ascribed to Jordanus de Tridentia a question ‘Utrum forma substantialis perficiens materiam sit corruptibilis’ which Tabarroni and Lambertini (1984) have shown to be by Johannes de Ganduno.
- Ermatinger C. J., Averroism in Early Fourteenth Century Bologna, “Mediaeval Studies” 16, 1954.
- Glorieux P., La Faculté Des Arts Et Ses Maîtres Au Xiiie Siècle, Paris 1971.
- 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.
- Tabarroni, A. e R. Lambertini, Le ‘Quaestiones super metaphysicam’ attribuite a Giovanni di Jandun: Osservazioni e problemi, “Medioevo” 10, 1984.
Matteo Stettler