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Quaestio disputata de intensione et remissione formarum
- The Oxford codex, Bodleian Library, Canon. misc. lat 177, fols. 24ab-39rb omits a part of this question concerning Dubia di statica, between the III and IV articles; it is therefore less complete than the Venetian copy revised by Biagio himself.
- The Oxford codex, Bodleian Library, Canon. misc. 181, fols. 66rb-72rv contains only three articles instead of four, as in the Venice codex. On fol. 66rb: “incipit utrum sit evidens aliquam qualitatem posse intendi vel remitti et statim arguitur quod non”.
- Blasius of Parma discusses a similar topic with a different development in Book V, Question 10 of the Quaestiones disputatae super octo libros Physicorum, redactio II.
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- Federici Vescovini G., La Quaestio de intensione et remissione formarum di Biagio Pelacani da Parma, “Physis” 31/2, 1994: 433-535
Circa materia de intensione et remissione formarum ego quero, utrum possibile sit aliquam qualitatem intendi similiter et remitti. Et arguitur primo de supposito sic […]
Et sic sit dictum pro tota questione ad laudem et honorem dei omnipotentis et sue matris Marie Virginis. Amen. Amen etc. Expliciunt ea que sufficienter sub brevitate dici possunt circa materiam de intensione et remissione formarum in hac notabilissima questione secundum excellentissimum omnium liberalium artium monarcham necnon studiorum ltalie illustratorem Magistrum Blasium de Pellachanis de Parma, que quidem questio est mei Francisci filii eius.
Francesco De Benedittis