Jacopo Zabarella

Giacomo (or Jacopo) Zabarella (5 September 1533 – 15 October 1589) was an Italian Aristotelian philosopher and logician.

Life[edit]

Zabarella was born into a noble Paduan family. He received a humanist education and entered the University of Padua, where he received a doctorate in 1553. His teachers included Francesco Robortello in humanities, Bernardino Tomitano in logic, Marcantonio Genua in physics and metaphysics, and Pietro Catena in mathematics. In 1564 he succeeded Tomitano in a chair of logic. In 1577 he was promoted to the first extraordinary chair of natural philosophy. He died in Padua at the age of 56 in 1589. His entire teaching career was spent at his native university. His successor was Cesare Cremonini.

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Opera logica

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On Methods

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Edwards, William F. (1960): The Logic of Iacopo Zabarella (1533–1589). Unpublished Ph.D.thesis, Columbia University.

H. Mikkeli (1992): An Aristotelian Response to Renaissance Humanism. Jacopo Zabarella on the Nature of Arts and Sciences, Helsinki: The Finnish Historical Society.

(1961): The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science. Padova: Editrice Antenore.

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"Giacomo Zabarella"

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Biography at The Galileo Project

Ulrich G. Leinsle (1998). "Jacopo Zabarella". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). (in German). Vol. 14. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 292–295. ISBN 3-88309-073-5., biography of Jacopo Zabarella

Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL)

Philosophy Institute of the Düsseldorf University: Philosophengalerie, : with picture