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Versoris, Johannes

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Johannes Versoris (probably died after 1482) was a Master of Arts active at the University of Paris in the fifteenth century. He wrote a number of influential commentaries on the corpus Aristotelicum, Peter of Spain’s Summulae logicales, and Thomas Aquinas’s De ente et essentia which were frequently reprinted between 1480 and 1500, especially in Cologne. Since Versoris’s commentary work bears traces of both Thomist and Albertist thought, the question of his relation to the contemporary schools of thought is highly controversial and as yet unresolved.

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Geudens, C. (2017). Versoris, Johannes. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_572-2

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