Paolo (Order of the Hermits of Saint Augustine), son of Nicoletto Antonio from Venice and a woman Elena, whose family lineage is unknown, was born in Udine in 1369. He was one of the most prominent personalities in Italian university culture of the fifteenth century and one of the most acute and interesting logicians of the entire Middle Ages. In all likelihood, the writing of the Logica parva began in Oxford, an elementary manual of logic which had a very wide diffusion, as demonstrated by the over 80 manuscript examples and numerous printed editions of the 15th-16th century. In the fifteenth century alone there were 14 editions! Within the philosophical panorama of the late Middle Ages and the humanistic age, Paolo Veneto places himself within those areas of thought that can be qualified as essentialist realism, in metaphysics, and eclectic Aristotelianism, in psychology and epistemology.
Goff P230; HC 12504*; Sander 5483; IGI 7362; IBP 4212; Pr 5608; BMC V 569; GW M30349