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Goffredo of Saint-Victor

GOFFREDO DI SAN VITTORE

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Also known as: German: Gottfried von Sankt Viktor; Godfrey of Saint Victor; French: Godefroy de Saint-Victor; Italian: Goffredo di S. Vittore; Latin: Gaufridus de Sancto Victore, Godefridus de Sancto Victore

GOFFREDO OF SAINT-VICTOR. - Philosopher, b. in the first decades of the 12th century, d. in 1194. Biographical details are lacking.

He wrote: Pons philosophiae, which is a classification of the sciences with an indication of the ancient philosophical sources (Plato, Aristotle, Boethius, Macrobius, etc.). In the same work are found valuable historical accounts of the various solutions to the problem of universals: De microcosmo (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, cod. lat. 14.515), a philosophical-ascetic work, in which the Platonism of Chartres and the dialectic of Abelard are fused with the mysticism of the school of St. Victor.

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BIBL.: M. De Wulf, Storia della filosofia medievale, Italian trans., I, Florence 1944, p. 216; J. De Ghellinck, L'essor de la littérature latine au XIIe siècle, I, Brussels-Paris 1946, pp. 57-58; M. Grabmann, Gottfried, in LThK, IV, col. 621-22.

Antonio Piolanti

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 899.

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Piolanti, Antonio. “Goffredo di San Vittore.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 899. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/goffredo-di-san-vittore.

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Piolanti, Antonio. “Goffredo di San Vittore.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 899. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/goffredo-di-san-vittore.

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  author    = {Piolanti, Antonio},
  title     = {Goffredo di San Vittore},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
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