BOMBOLOGNO da BOLOGNA. - Dominican philosopher and theologian, b. at Bologna at the beginning of the 13th century, d. there about 1280. He entered religious life and completed his studies at Bologna. Probably a lecturer on the Sentences at Paris (1266–68), he taught for several years at Bologna, where he was also regent of the Studium from 1277 to 1279.
The fruit of his teaching was a commentary on the Sentences and various works on logic: including commentaries on Porphyry, Aristotle’s Categories, the Periermeneias, and Gilbert of Poitiers’ Book of the Six Principles. The only work that has come down to us is the Commentary on the Sentences (though Book II is lacking). It is preserved at Bologna (Books I and III, University Library, MSS 1506, 1508; Book IV, Archiginnasio Library, MS B 1420) and at Assisi (Book III only, Municipal Library, 155). B.’s method is that employed by other authors of similar works. His principal sources are St Thomas, Pietro di Tarantasia, St Bonaventura, and Annibaldo degli Annibaldi. He was greatly familiar with the works of Aristotle and with Arabic philosophy, which he shows himself to know far better than did his sources.