The Fourteenth-Century Italian Dominican Tradition of Logic. Some Notes

When we speak of Oxford and Paris traditions of logic, in one respect we refer to an historical fact. There are logicians who teach in Oxford and logicians who teach in Paris, and they shared the tendency to refer to masters belonging to the same University milieu and to use the same arguments and topics that others from the same school used. These elements contribute to fix the physiognomy of the two traditions. But in another respect, we state the result of a historiographic construction, since medieval logicians had an idea of tradition very different from the one we have today. In the paper I defend this claim by focusing on a group of Italian Dominican logicians I studied over the last years, namely Francis of Prato, Stephen of Rieti, Philip of Ferrara and Gratiadeus of Ascoli, all of whom flourished in the second quarter of the fourteenth century