PETER OF AQUILA (Scotellus, of Tonnaparte). - Scotist theologian, b. at Aquila ca. 1300, d. at Trivento in Nov. 1361. He studied in Paris and obtained the degree of master in theology and from posterity the honorary title of Doctor sufficiens. Ca. 1334 provincial of the Friars Minor in Tuscany and one of the five doctors who in that year examined the commentary on the Sentences of William Rubione; in 1344 chaplain of Joanna I, queen of Naples and Sicily, and in 1346 inquisitor at Florence. Because of a conflict with the Florentine authorities he was accused before Pope Clement VI but, having been found innocent, he was elevated on 12 Feb. 1347 to the episcopal see of S. Angelo dei Lombardi, whence on 30 May 1348 he was transferred to that of Trivento.

Several works were attributed to him, but until now only his commentary on the four books of the Sentences of the Lombard was known, which is essentially an abridgment of the commentaries of Scotus; for this reason they were called Scotellus, first the work, then the author himself. Although P. in general follows Scotus faithfully, sometimes he also draws from the other Franciscan authors or adds something of his own. The work, which had a wide circulation, was then printed for the first time at Speyer (1480), the last time (1907-1909) at Rocco (vols. I-III) and at Levanto (vol. IV) under the editorship of C. Paolini. His Compendium super librum Sententiarum was discovered recently by F. S. Schmitt, O.S.B.

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BIBL.: Wadding, Annales, VII, n. 306, p. 363; n. 329, p. 390 ff.; A. Dragonetti, Le vite degli illustri aquilani, Aquila 1847, pp. 60-66; C. Eubel, Ballarium Franciscanum, VI, Rome 1902, nn. 402, 461; Sbaralea, II, p. 322 ff.; D. Scaramuzzi, Il pensiero di G. Duns Scoto nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia, Rome 1927, pp. 76-80; M. Schmaus, Der Liber Propugnatorius, in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters, Münster 1930, part 2, pp. 149 ff., 240 ff., 357 ff., 543 ff.; A. Teeter, Scotellus di Tonnaparte, in DThC, XIV, coll. 1730-33; F. S. Schmitt, Des Petrus von Aquila Compendium super librum Sententiarum aufgefunden, in Recherches de Théol. anc. et méd., 17 (1930), pp. 267-82.

Gedeone Gál

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Peter of Aquila (Scotellus, of Tonnaparte)

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