GIOVANNI DI CASALE

GIOVANNI di CASALE. - Francescano, filosofo e scienziato, n. a Casale di Monferrato ca. il 1320 (?), m. dopo il 1375.
GIOVANNI di CASALE. - Francescano, filosofo e scienziato, n. a Casale di Monferrato ca. il 1320 (?), m. dopo il 1375.

He is the author of a Quaestio de velocitate motus alterationis, written in 1355 (ed. Venice 1505), which was inspired by the doctrines of Richard Swineshead (or Suisset) and Nicole Oresme and appears to have been widely circulated in the 14th and 15th centuries. He was probably the first to introduce Oresme’s doctrines to Italy.

BIBL.: Sbarlata, III, p. 52; A. Maier, An der Grenze von Scholastik und Naturwissenschaft, Essen 1943, pp. 354-57 (bibl.); Descriptio codicum, in Arch. Franc. hist., 1 (1909), p. 116. Anneliese Maier