GIOVANNI di Napoli (Joannes de Regina de Neapoli, *Neapolitanus*). - Dominican scholastic of the 13th–14th century. He obtained the licentiate in theology at Paris, where in 1310–11 he lectured on the *Sentences* (whose commentaries have not been recovered). In 1313–14 he was a member of the commission for examining the works of Durandus of Saint-Pourçain; from 1317 he was a lector at the Dominican studium in Naples; in 1323 he served as procurator in Avignon for the canonization of St Thomas Aquinas.
Besides commentaries, he wrote *Quaestiones quodlibetales* and forty-two *Quaestiones disputatae* (Naples 1618). In theological and philosophical topics—such as the beatific vision, the temporal power of the popes, questions concerning being, time and eternity, the soul, truth, free will and individuation—he adhered to St Thomas, though on the last topic he diverged from the Angelic Doctor. He defended Thomistic doctrine against Durandus and showed that Stephen Tempier’s condemnation did not strike at the sound thought of Thomas.