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About the book >.>.> A Study in Renaissance Ockhamism HERBERT STANLEY MATSEN The period between 1300 and 1600 in Europe was one of transition from the medieval to the modern world. The present work studies a few doctrines in a thinker who was judged important in his own time the Bolognese philosopher and physician Alessandro Achillini. First Dr. Matsen sketches Achillini’s life using archival documents and other derivative accounts of his career. Shen he surveys his eleven published writings published between 1494 and 1520. To evaluate Achillini’s role as a thinker the author has selected for examination one logical and six metaphysical issues. The six scholastic so-called transcenden- tals studied are: Being (Ens) Unity (Unum) Truth (Verum) Good (Bon- um) What (Quid) and Thing (Res). In considering Achillini’s doctrines Dr. Matsen refers to his subject’s sources wherever possible and makes clear how he utilized traditional subject matter in developing them. Despite several noteworthy differ- ences there are a great many doctrinal similarities between the thought of Achillini and that of Ockham. Of some significance is the fact that Marcus de Beneveto published three of Ockham’s works at Bologna in the last decade of the fifteenth century and in his letter