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    The Ratio Studiorum of the Conventual Franciscans in the Baroque Age and the Cultural-Political Background to the Scotist Philosophy Cursus of Bartolomeo Mastri and Bonaventura Belluto

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    During the century following the Council of Trent, two trends within Catholic religious orders matured: the first consisted in unifying and strengthening the Order’s culture by focussing on one author of reference; the other in elaborating a new way of presenting that author’s doctrines. In the case of the Friars Minor Conventuals, these trends were fostered in the second decade of the seventeenth century by the minister general of the Order, Giacomo Montanari, who promoted the idea that providing the Order with new works featuring innovative didactic characteristics and a renewed defence of the doctrines of John Duns Scotus was a prime way to lead an authentic religious life. Bartolomeo Mastri and Bonaventura Belluto’s “philosophiae cursus ad mentem Scoti” was probably the major result of this impulse. This essay examines the ways in which this process occurred and the outcomes to which it led

    Tra Aristotele e Scoto: la determinazione della natura della metafisica nel pensiero di Filippo Fabri

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    Filippo Fabri coinceived himself as a follower of Scotus promoting the latter's positions in the contemporary milieu. He advocated a conception of metaphysics built on five pillars: transcendental being is a formalitas; transcendental being is the subject of metaphysics; transcendental being virtually contains everything that metaphysics deals with; possible theoretical sciences are four, but only three of them are viable for human beings; metaphysics does not absorb the remaining theoretical sciences. Fabri's position appears simple, yet it hides a number of critical issues; examining them allows us to qualify the variant of Scotism supported by Fabri as a strongly realist one and to grasp the reasons why other Scotists propounded different readings of the position of Scotus

    Mastri, Bartolomeo

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    Among the seventeenth-century promoters of Scotism, Bartolomeo Mastri (1602–1673) was conspicuous for the scope of his work, his knowledge of the authors and debates of his time, and for his refined interpretations of the philosophy and theology of John Duns Scotus. These qualities make him a precious source for an accurate understanding of seventeenthcentury university thought. They have also made him an important, though not always explicitly mentioned, point of reference for more than a few modern readers of Scotus
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