Gentile there Foligno, Latin Gentilis Fulgineus, Gentilis de Fulgineo, Gentilis Fulginas, surname Speculator (*1280/1290 in Foligno, "† 18. June 1348 in Perugia), Italian physician, physician and philosopher.

Gentile was the son of a physician from wealthy family in Foligno. Over the beginning of its studies nothing is well-known, one has however assumed that he was pupil of Taddeo Alderotti (Bologna), Pietro d'Abano (Padua) or Dino del Garbo, at which latter it 1320 in Siena was. 1322 until October 1324 he is a professor for medicine in Siena, starting from December 1324 then for at least two years in Perugia, where since 1308 a study generals was developed. For the time between 1327 and 1338 one can assume him in Perugia and occasionally perhaps also in Padua, it is missing however the historical vouchers for this period, only from 1338 to its death at the large plague of 1348 is then again provable he than professor in Perugia, where he it to reputation and prosperity -- with houses and in Perugia and Foligno -- had brought.

How numerous other medical profession of its time belonged Gentile to a high-cultivated environment, which one called occasionally human or protohumanistisch. It possessed literary interests, quoted among other things frequently from Apuleius, stood in personal relationship with the poet Cino there Pistoia and indicates in its comment to Avicenna also poems in the people language to have written. Above all however it, in accordance with the general adjustment of the medicine in the upper-Italian universities of its time, possessed a pronounced interest in the aristotelischen philosophy and nature philosophy, which were here particularly rezipiert under the influence of the works by Averroes and Avicenna. It possessed no own knowledge of the Arab one, Hebrew one or Greek one, was however with available latin the translations trusts and in its writings value put to embed the own Lehrmeinung into the context of the views of its predecessors reported in detail.

Its scientific Hauptwerk, which he drew up for approximately 1320 up to his death, is the comment to Canon of the Avicenna, whose five books he commentated as the first medieval commentator almost completely, in all parts relevant for university instruction. The comment and/or parts of it is in 49 handwriting 14. and 15. Century delivered, between 1476 and 1523 he was eleven times totally or partly printed. In addition Gentile wrote comments to Hippokrates and Galen, in addition numerous Quaestiones and smaller writings, which et later under the collective name Questiones Tractatus of extravagantes were printed.

Related links

• s.v. Gentile, Gentile de Fulgineo: Bibliography of the electronic expenditures in the Analytic Bibliography OF on-line Neo Latin of text
• Chandelier, Gentile Foligno, et there universitaire you XIVe , de l'Ecole of the Chartes, 2002
• Gentile there Foligno: Italian article with extensive bibliography on the Website the university of Siena

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