GUGLIELMO DI VORILLON (VORILLONG, FORLEON, VALLE RULLONIS) - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. VI, p. 756

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

WILLIAM OF VORILLON (VORILLONG, FORLEON, VALLE RULLONIS). – A French Scotist of the 15th century, born at Vorillon in the Côte du Nord, died in Rome c. 1464. A Franciscan friar at Dinant in 1429, he taught in Paris as bachelor of the Sentences.

In 1462, while in Rome in the presence of Pope Pius II, he was invited to take part in the debate on the question “de sanguine Christi.” His principal work is the *Super quattuor Libros Sententiarum iuxta doctrinam s. Bonaventurae et Scoti*, a commentary completed in 1429–30 and published several times (Lyons 1484, 1495, 1499; Paris 1503; Venice 1496, 1519). To this may be added the *Repertorium seu vademecum vel collectionarium opinionum in Scoto nulla tenus signatarum ex quattuor Libris Sententiarum* (Padua 1842–47), likewise of great importance for textual criticism.

BIBL.: Wadding, *Annales*, 1464, 1; 1470, 10; id., *Scriptores*, p. 108; Sbaralea, I, p. 351; H. Denifle–E. Châtelain, *Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis*, IV, Paris 1897, 2330; 2; 2625, 2; 2633, 4; Grant McColley–H. W. Miller, *St. Bonaventure, Mayron, Vorilong and the Doctrine of a Plurality of Worlds*, in *Speculum*, 12 (1937), pp. 386–89; F. Pelster, *W. von Vorillon, ein Skotist des 15. Jahrh.*, in *Franziskanische Studien*, 8 (1921), pp. 48–66; I. Brady, *The Liber de Anima of William of Wauruillon*, in *Mediaeval Studies*, 10 (1948), pp. 225–97.