WILLIAM de la MARE. - Franciscan philosopher and theologian, d. 1298. He taught at Oxford; he is the author of a Commentary on the Sentences (which, however, covers only the first two books), and of Quaestiones disputatae: both works are still unpublished. He is known above all for his Correctorium fratris Thomae, which gathers, under 118 chapters, Thomistic theses and to each one appends a refutation conducted from the Bonaventurian point of view.

The Correctorium became almost the official text in the Franciscan Order after the General Chapter of Strasbourg of 1282 and, one might say, an almost equally official target of Thomistic counterattacks. One of these counterattacks (which prided themselves on the title of Correctoria and assigned to the work of G. de la M. that of Corruptorium): the Correctorium corruptorii «Quare», transcribes one by one the passages of G. and to them appends the defense of St. Thomas, so that in this Thomistic counterattack (of which we possess a critical edition) we can also find the text of G. de la M.

G. follows faithfully the doctrine of St. Bonaventure; indeed Longpré maintains that his commentary on the Sentences is in reality a commentary on the Commentary of St. Bonaventure.

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BIBL.: E. Longpré, G. de la M., Amiens 1922; P. Glorieux, Le Correctorium Corruptorii «Quare», Kain 1927; F. Pelster, Les déclarations et les quaestiones de G. de la M., in Rech. th. anc. et méd., 3 (1931), pp. 397-411.

Sofia Vanni Rovighi

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William de la Mare

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