Matija Ferkić or Matija Frkić (, ; 1583 – 1669) was a

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scholastic philosopher Scholasticism was a medieval European philosophical movement or methodology that was the predominant education in Europe from about 1100 to 1700. It is known for employing logically precise analyses and reconciling classical philosophy and C ...

from

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. He was from the island of

(). He was a

Scotist Scotism is the philosophical school and theological system named after John Duns Scotus, a 13th-century Scottish philosopher-theologian. The word comes from the name of its originator, whose ''Opus Oxoniense'' was one of the most important d ...

, and wrote a ''Vita et apologia Scoti'', a life of

Duns Scotus John Duns Scotus ( ; , "Duns the Scot"; – 8 November 1308) was a Scottish Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, university professor, philosopher and theologian. He is considered one of the four most important Christian philosopher-t ...

. He taught at the

University of Padua The University of Padua (, UNIPD) is an Italian public research university in Padua, Italy. It was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from the University of Bologna, who previously settled in Vicenza; thus, it is the second-oldest ...

for 35 years, from 1629. He published the works of

Philip Faber Philip Faber (Fabri) (1564, Spinata di Brisighella – Padua, 28 August 1630) was an Italian Franciscan theologian, philosopher and noted commentator on Duns Scotus. Life In 1582 he entered the Order of St. Francis (Conventuals), at Cremona ...

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Works

* ''Apologiae pro Ioanne Duns Scoto doctore subtili libri tres : in Ioannem Fridericum Matenesium, in Abrahamum Bzouium Polonum, in Paulum Iouium Nouocomensem'', Bologna, typ. Sebastiano Bonomii, 1620. * ''Vita Ioannis Dunsii Scoti'', Bologna, typis N. Tebaldini, 1622; Napoli, typ. Giandomenico Roncalioli, 1629. * ''Istri seu Danubii ortus aliorumque fluminum ab Aristotele in primo Meteoro inductorum. Accessit Lacus Asphaltitis confirmatio'', Padova, ex typ. B. Carectoni, 1632. * ''Vestigationes peripateticae'', Padova, typ. P. Frambotti, 1639. * ''De Fabulis palaestini stagni ad aures Aristotelis, peripateticorum principis'', Padova, typ. Giambattista Pasquati, 1641. * ''Osservationi sopra il Goffredo del signor

Torquato Tasso Torquato Tasso ( , also , ; 11 March 154425 April 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1591 poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' (Jerusalem Delivered), in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between ...

'', Padova, typ. Giambattista Pasquati, 1642. * ''De Personis producentibus Spiritum Sanctum'', Padova, 1644 * * ''Defensio vestigationum peripateticorum ab offensionibus Belluti et Mastrii'', Padova, typ. Giambattista Pasquati, 1646. * ''Epitome theologicum M.F. Veglensis ... ex Magistro Sententiarum

Petrus Lombardus Peter Lombard (also Peter the Lombard, Pierre Lombard or Petrus Lombardus; 1096 – 21/22 August 1160) was an Italian scholastic theologian, Bishop of Paris, and author of '' Four Books of Sentences'' which became the standard textbook of theol ...

] et ... Jo. [Duns] Scoto, a M.P.M. Rusca ... evulgatum'', 4 vol., Padova, 1647. * ''Oratio in Ioannem Dunsium Scotum Doctorem Subtilem declamata in Universitate Patavina die tertia novembris 1634'', ed. Antonino Poppi, "La santità di Giovanni Duns Scoto nel solco di Francesco d'Assisi e Antonio di Padova", ''Il Santo. Rivista antoniana di storia, dottrina, arte'' 33/1 (1993), 121-133.

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Matija Frkić - an interpreter and critic of Tasso
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferchius 1583 births 1669 deaths Conventual Friars Minor Scholastic philosophers 17th-century Croatian Roman Catholic priests Croatian Roman Catholic theologians Croatian philosophers Scotism Italian people of Croatian descent