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Pietro dall’Almadura or dalla Maldura, known as Pietro da Bergamo, was born in Bergamo in the early decades of the fifteenth century and was an important Italian Dominican theologian. In his early age, he entered the Dominican convent of St. Stephen, in Bergamo, where he began his philosophical and theological education, which he completed in the Dominican convent of Bologna, where he especially deepened the knowledge of the thoughts and works of Thomas Aquinas. He was a priest and teacher and had illustrious students such as Domenico from Fiandra, Paolo from Soncino, and Girolamo Savonarola. He died on October 15, 1482, in Piacenza.
His major work, published for the first time in 1473 in Bologna, is the Tabula, later defined aura: the most comprehensive and widespread Thomistic tabula of its era. He also published the Ethimologiae sive Concordantiae dictorum atque conclusionum divi Thomae de Aquino and the Confessione cavata de l’Antonina.
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Bacchini, L.F. (2016). Pietro da Bergamo. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_745-1
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