GIOVANNI DA RIPATRANSONE (DE RIPA, DE RIPS, DE RUPA, TALORA DE MARCHIA)

GIOVANNI da RIPATRANSONE (de Ripa, de Rips, de Rupa, sometimes de Marchia). — Franciscan theologian who commented on the *Sentences* in Paris between 1354 and 1357.

In codex Vat. lat. 1084, f. 106 he is called a “superstibilis doctor.” Initially a Scotist, he went far beyond Duns Scotus, so much so that G. Gerson, Peter of Candia, and others treated him as a master. He was one of the most resolute advocates of the thesis that, by His omnipotence, God could create an infinite world. Besides his unpublished commentary on Book 1 of the *Sentences*, there survive his *Determinationes*, studied by A. Combes. One of the principal sources for his thought is the *Lectura super Sententias* of P. di Candia, examined by F. Ehrle.