About Vital du Four
Lived 1260 – 1327 (aged 66–67). Vital du Four was a French philosopher and catholic priest.
Vital du Four (Bazas, 1260 – Avignon, 1327) was a French Franciscan theologian and scholastic philosopher, and prior of Eauze.
He became Cardinal in 1312 and bishop of Albano in 1321.
Works Quaestiones disputate de rerum principio, wrongly attributed to Duns Scotus in: Quaestiones disputatae De rerum principio, tractatus De primo rerum omnium principio, novis curis edidit Marianus Fernandez Garcia, Quaracchi, 1910, pp. 1–624.
Studies John F. Lynch, The Theory of Knowledge of Vital du Four, St. Bonaventure, Franciscan Institute Publications, 1972.
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Catholic cardinal
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Vital du Four was born in 1260 in Bazas.
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Vital du Four died in 1327 in Avignon.
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Vital du Four was a philosopher and catholic priest.
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