MARTINO de FUGERIIS. - A thirteenth-century theologian, of whom it is known only that he was known as magister Martinus (the Paris manuscript Nat. lat. 3116 adds de Fugeriis), as may be inferred from the manuscripts containing his unpublished Summa (Cambridge, Paris, Toulouse, Troyes manuscripts).
His presence in Paris during the early years of the thirteenth century is probable, given the doctrinal relations of his writings with the works of Pietro il Cantore, Prevostino, and Stefano Langton. This may also be inferred from the citations of this master made by Goffredo di Poitiers. In method and doctrine he approaches Pietro di Poitiers (d. 1205). His writings appear to be scarcely original, being almost compilations or extracts from the Summa of Simone di Tournai, the Glossae super sententias (c. 1152-60), and the Sententiae Udonis (c. 1160-65). He himself, in the prologue to the Summa, complains that his adversaries reproached him: «Me aliorum scrinina ausu compilasse clandestino atque nefanda epigrammatis munitione, quod ab aliis, retroactis temporibus diligenti scrutinio curaque sollerii est elaboratum, a me pervicaciter fuisse presumptum».
Gaudenzio Melani