Divine Ideas in Franciscan Thought (XIIIth-XIVth Century), by Jacopo Falà and Irene Zavattero (eds)

This volume presents a series of papers on the 13th and 14th century Franciscan debate on divine ideas. Most of the principal Franciscan authors of the time are considered: from Alexandre de Hales and the first Franciscan masters of theology to the late-14th-century thinker John of Ripa, including Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, John Duns Scotus, Peter John Olivi, Petrus de Trabibus, James of Ascoli, William of Ockham, William of Alnwick, Petrus Thomae, Peter Auriol, Hugh of Novocastro, Landulph Caracciolo, and Francis of Meyronnes. Their doctrines are carefully analysed and contextualised within the general frame of 13th- and 14th-century Franciscan theology.

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Jacopo Francesco Falà studied at the Universities of Rome “Sapienza”, Bari, Coimbra, and Macerata. He defended a PhD dissertation (2017) on Collationes Oxonienses and collaborated on the critical edition of this text. His main interests concern the medieval debates on the univocity of the concept of being, the ontological status of essences and divine ideas – focusing especially on Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus and the English Franciscans of the early 14th century. He has published contributions on these issues and on Franciscan economic thought.

Irene Zavattero is research associate (Rtd-B) in History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Trento. She is a specialist of medieval ethics and investigates particularly the reception of Aristotle’s ethic thought in the 13th and 14th centuries. She has published numerous works on the earliest 13th-century Latin commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics. She is the author of the critical edition of Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio super Elementationem theologicam Procli, propositions 66–107 (2003), and, together with Coralba Colomba, of Ulrich of Strasbourg’s De summo bono, VI, 4, 1–15 (2017), both published in the series Corpus Philosophorum Teutonicorum Medii Aevi.

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