Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002.

“Paul of Venice: Logica Parva, First Critical Edition from the Manuscripts with Introduction and Commentary” is an edition of the Latin text of “Logica Parva,” a late 14th-century work in logic and semantics. The book gives evidence that the early Humanists who launched modern philosophy on a critique of Scholasticism knew little, if anything, of Scholastic logic.

The “Logica Parva,” which is more than 200 modern pages in length, exists in more than 80 manuscripts and 25 printed editions. From these, Alan Perreiah inspected all of the manuscripts and used a computer program Zyindex to establish six as the basis for the edition. The “Logica Parva” gave students a foundation in logic so that they could keep abreast of the latest scientific, philosophical and theological ideas that were coming into Italy from Paris and Oxford.

Alan Perreiah is a professor in the Department of Philosophy in College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. He holds a doctorate from Indiana University.  He was a Fulbright Scholar (Poland) and has held N.E.H. Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N. J., and at Villa i Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. He is the translator of “Paul of Venice: Logica Parva” (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1984) and the author of numerous articles on Paul of Venice and topics in medieval logic and philosophy.  He is also interested in the contributions of Asian philosophers to logic, cosmology, metaphysics and ethics.