DOMENICO di FIANDRA. - Dominican philosopher and writer, born at Merris (or Merville), in the diocese of Tirouane (northern France), around 1425; died in Florence on 16 July 1479. He studied in Paris, where he subsequently taught philosophy with considerable renown. On 7 September 1461 he entered the Dominican Order in Bologna, then the centre of the reformed Congregation of Lombardy. He was professor for several years in Bologna (1462–1470) and Florence (1471–72). At the wish of Lorenzo de' Medici, he taught physics at the new Academy of Pisa (1472–73); finally, from 1478 he was regent of the Dominican Studium in Florence, where he died of the plague.
He left many books on logic, natural philosophy, metaphysics, and moral philosophy. The following works are preserved: Quaestiones quodlibetales (Venice 1500); Quaestiones super commentaria s. Thomae in libros posteriorum analiticarum Aristotelis (ibid. 1507, 1526, 1548, 1587, 1600); Expositio super fallacis s. Thomae de Aquino (published together with the preceding work); Tractatus de suppositionibus (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS A. 370); Expositio super libros de anima (Venice, n.d., republished several times); Summa divinae philosophiae (ibid. 1409; Cologne 1621; Bologna 1622).