GENUA, MARC'ANTONIO, commonly called GENUA (GENOA, ZENOA, JANUA). - Paduan Averroist, b. toward the end of the fifteenth century, d. at Padua in 1563. His father Niccolò taught medicine at the same University of Padua, where M. A. taught philosophy with great success from 1517 until his death.
He left a commentary on Aristotle’s Physica and on the De anima. In the latter he endeavors to demonstrate the perfect agreement, on the question of the single intellect, between Averroes and Simplicius, whose commentary on the De anima had recently become known. G. combats Pomponazzi and the other Alexandrists from his Averroist standpoint.
BIBL.: Editions: In tres libros de anima, Venezia 1576; Disputatio de intellectus humani immortalitate, Monte Regali 1565. The commentary on the Physica exists in ms. Vat. lat. 4702-4703, and that on the De anima, in two versions somewhat different from the cited print edition, in codd. Vat. lat. 4704-7407. - Studies: G. C. Caraceno, at the beginning of the Venetian ed. of the De anima; A. Berga, at the beginning of the Disputatio; G. Vedova, Bisgr. degli scrittori padovani, I, Padova 1832, pp. 457-60. Bruno Nardi