GIOVANNI di NAPOLI (Joannes de Regina de Neapoli, Neapolitanus). — Dominican scholastic of the thirteenth–fourteenth century. He obtained the licentiate in theology at Paris, where in 1310–11 he lectured on the Sentences (whose commentaries have not been found). In 1313–14 he was a member of the commission for examining the works of Durando di S. Porciano; from 1317 he was a lector at the Dominican studium in Naples; in 1323 he was procurator in Avignon for the canonization of s. Tommaso d'Aquino.
In addition to the commentaries, he wrote Quaestiones quodlibetales and 42 Quaestiones disputatae (Naples 1618). Adhering to s. Tommaso, he treated theological and philosophical subjects: the beatific vision, the temporal power of the popes, questions concerning being, time and eternity, the soul, truth, free will, and individuation, differing from s. Tommaso on the last of these subjects. He defended Thomistic doctrine against Durando and demonstrated that the condemnation of Stefano Tempier did not strike at the sound thought of Tommaso.