DOMENICO OF FLANDERS. – Dominican philosopher and writer, born in Merris (or Merville), diocese of Thérouanne (northern France), c. 1425, died in Florence on 16 July 1479. He studied in Paris, where he later taught philosophy with notable renown. On 7 September 1461 he entered the Dominican Order in Bologna, then a center of the reformed Congregation of Lombardy. He taught for several years in Bologna (1462–1470) and in Florence (1471–72). At the request of Lorenzo de’ Medici he taught physics at the new Academy in Pisa (1472–73); finally, from 1478 he was regent at the Dominican Studium in Florence, where he died of the plague.
He left many books on logic, natural philosophy, metaphysics, and moral philosophy. Among his surviving works are: *Quaestiones quotidiebetales* (Venice 1500); *Quaestiones super commentaria s. Thomae in libros posteriorum analiticorum Aristotelis* (ibid. 1507, 1526, 1548, 1587, 1600); *Expositio super fallacis s. Thomae de Aquino* (published together with the preceding); *Tractatus de suppositionibus* (Oxford, Bodleian Library, ms. A. 370); *Expositio super libros de anima* (Venice n.d., reprinted several times); *Summa divinae philosophiae* (ibid. 1409; Cologne 1621; Bologna 1622).