GERARDO da BOLOGNA. — Carmelite theologian, d. in 1317. He was the first of his Order to obtain the master’s degree at the University of Paris, where he taught in 1307. Superior general (from 1297 until his death), he gave the entire Order a strong scholastic orientation.
He wrote extensively: a commentary on the Sentences, 4 quodlibeta, ordinary questions on the virtues, and a Summa of theology that remained incomplete.
He followed an eclectic tendency, with a marked preference for the intellectualism of Goffredo da Fontaines: this would be the characteristic of the Parisian Carmelite school up to Giovanni Baconthorp.
BIBL.: B. Xiberta, De scriptoribus scholasticis saec. XIV ex Ord. Carm., Louvain 1931, pp. 74–110; M. De Wulf, Storia della filosofia medievale, III, Italian translation by V. Miano, Florence 1948, pp. 103–104.