VERNIA, NICOLETTO. - Philosopher, born in Chieti ca. 1420, died in Padua in 1499. He taught in Padua from 1465.
Having been trained in the Venetian school of Ockhamism, he directed his research toward nature independently of any metaphysical concerns. Among his disputations worth noting are: *De Unitate*; *An ens mobile sit totius philosophiae subiectum*; *An dentur universalia realia*. In the *Quaestio an medicina nobilior atque praestantior sit iure civili*, he gives precedence to medicine, which aims at the preservation of life, an unchanging good, while laws change «secundum commoditatem et libitum hominum». He initially accepted and taught the Averroist doctrine. But
VEROLI, DIOCESE OF. - Façade of the Cathedral (18th century), with a rose window of
S. Maria Maddalena, which in 1423 passed into the ownership of the church of S. Erasmo. Documents from V. and the diocese are also found in the Vallicelliana Library in Rome. CAMISARDI (v.) is also located in the diocese of V. Ughelli, M. De Matthias, and G. Cappelletti claimed that the city of Frosinone (since 1927 the provincial capital) had once been a bishopric, thus supporting a persistent and tenacious but unfounded tradition lacking any antiquity. Monuments and documents do not in the least support their assertion. On the contrary, from the privileges of the episcopal see of V., it is clearly deduced that the city of Frosinone was the seat of the Apostolic Delegate for the Campagna. The small town of Ceirano, at the extreme southern end of the diocese of V., often mentioned in medieval history, was considered the closing gate of the Patrimony of St. Peter, which extended from Acquapendente to Ceirano.
Bruni, Ubehli, I, pp. 1386 ff.; Cappelletti, VI, pp. 467 ff.; Moroni, XCIV, pp. 5-120; V. CAPRANICA, Monogr. di s. Salome patrona prince. della città e dioc. di V., Frosinone 1878; id., Stor. della chiesa cattedr. di S. Salome in V., 1878; V. Fr. Kehr, Italia Pontif., II, Berlin 1907, pp. 155-75; Lanzoni, pp. 169-70; Eubel, I, p. 523; II, p. 291; III, p. 352; IV, p. 365; V, p. 412.