GUGLIELMO di WARE. - English Franciscan, perhaps teacher of Duns Scoto, died around 1300. He was probably bachelor of theology at Oxford and commented there on the Sentences around 1290; later he was doctor at Paris (this contradicts F. Pelster, Handschriftliches zu Shotus etc. in Franzisk. Studien, 10 [1929], pp. 1-32).
Of his Commentary on the Sentences, preserved in several manuscripts, some questions on the Immaculate Conception have been published (Quaracchi 1904); De unitate Dei (edited by P. Muscat, in Antonianum, 2 [1927], pp. 335-50); and on the motive of the Incarnation (edited by J. M. Bissen, in Etudes Franciscaines, 46 [1934], pp. 218-22). G. di W. asserts his independence from Aristotle, especially with regard to the theory of spiritual realities, but abandons many theses of medieval Augustinianism (the necessity of illumination for intellectual knowledge; hylomorphic composition in spiritual substances). He admits a certain distinction between essence and being.