Nicoletto Vernia [SEP] place of death
Nicoletto Vernia
Nicoletto Vernia (c. 1420, in Chieti – October 31, 1499, in Vicenza) was an Italian Averroist philosopher, at the University of Padua.
Life.
He studied at Pavia, under Paolo da Pergola in Venice, and with Gaetano da Thiene in Padua, graduating with a doctorate in 1458. His first work was on the "unitas intellectus", the theory of Averroes on the unity of the soul and intellect.
In natural philosophy he posed the question of the scope of the
turn, Nicoletto Vernia, who succeeded to the same position on Gaetano's death, was one of his pupils. Among his pupils was also Pietro Roccabonella, a well known professor of medicine in Padua.
He should not be confused with Saint Cajetan.