Petrus Aureoli

Philosophy Portal Petrus Aureoli[1] (c. 1280 – 10 January 1322), often anglicized Peter Auriol, was a scholastic philosopher and theologian.

In 1321, he was appointed by his mentor, Pope John XXII, to the position of Archbishop of Aix-en-Provence, but died not long after in 1322.

Auriol's first work was on evangelical poverty, where he argued for a moderate position between those of the spirituals and conventuals.

He is best known for the enormous Scriptum super primum Sententiarum, his commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, which runs to more than 1100 folio pages and was eventually printed in Rome in 1596.

He also wrote Tractatus de principiis, a non-theological work, while he was lector at the Franciscan convent in Bologna some time before 1312, and some treatises on the Immaculate Conception at the Franciscan convent in Toulouse.