BASSOLIS, GIOVANNI de. - Franciscan theologian, b. probably at Bassoles in France in the last decades of the 13th century, d. 4 July 1333. He studied in Paris and was one of Scotus's favorite disciples. A Scotist philosopher and theologian of great worth, he taught at Reims (1313), Rouen and Mechelen (1322), earning the title of "doctor ornatissimus" or "ordinatissimus."

Among his writings we recall: In IV librum Sent., drafted at Reims in 1313 and first published ca. 1480 in Paris or Angers; In IV libros Sent., complete commentaries on the Sentences, published in Paris in 1516-17 under the revision of Orenzio Fine. His manuscripts: a Miscellanea and Loci philosophici.

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BIBL.: A. Bertoni, Le b. Jean Duns Scot, sa vie, sa doctrine, ses disciples, Levanto 1917, pp. 449-50; J. H. Sbarales, Supplem. ad script. Ord. Min., II, Rome 1921, p. 39; C. V. Langlois, Jean de B., Ord. Min., in Hist. littér. de la France, XXXVI, Paris 1927, pp. 349-55; E. d'Alençon, s. v. in DThC, II, col. 475.

Giovanni Odoardi

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