ADAMO di PETIT PONT. — A native of the county of Cambridge, but so called from the Parisian quarter in which, after studying at the school of Matteo di Angers and Pietro Lombardo, he taught courses in dialectic and grammar with great success. He subsequently transferred to the Cathedral school and, in the Trinitarian controversies aroused by Gilberto de la Porrée, took a stand against him. Appointed bishop of St Asaph, he took part in the Third Lateran Council (1179), at which, through his influence, he succeeded in averting the condemnation of a proposition attributed to Pietro Lombardo. He died on 6 August 1181.
He wrote De arte dialectica, in which indications of terminism are found and from which Cousin published several excerpts (Fragm. phil., II, Paris 1865, pp. 385–90), and De Utensilibus ad domum regendam, important for knowledge of the medieval vocabulary, re-edited by Hauréau in 1891. Cornelio Fabro