BASSOLIS, GIOVANNI de. - Minorite theologian, born probably at Bassoles in France during the last decades of the 13th century, died on 4 July 1333. He studied in Paris and was one of Scotus’s preferred disciples. A Scotist philosopher and theologian of great merit, he taught at Reims (1313), Rouen, and Malines (1322), earning the title of « doctor ornatissimus » or « ordinatissimus ».
Among his writings we recall: In IV librum Sent., composed at Reims in 1313 and first published about 1480 in Paris or Angers; In IV libros Sent., complete commentaries on the Sentences, published in Paris in 1516-17 after revision by Orenzio Fine. His manuscripts include a Miscellanea and Loci philosophici.
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, Roma 1921, p. 39; C. V. Langlois, Jean de B., Ord. Min., in Hist. littér. de la France, XXXVI, Parigi 1927, pp. 349-55; E. d'Alençon, s. V. in DThC, II, col. 475. Giovanni Odoardi