Stefano Pace

Stefano (or Stephen) Pace (1695–1735) was a minor Maltese mediaeval philosopher who specialised mainly in physics.

It seems that, in his youth, he might have been a student at the Studium Generale of the Dominicans at Valletta, Malta.

However, its complete title is La Fisica De’ Peripatetici, Cartesiani, ed Atomisti al paragone della vera fisica d’Aristotele (The Physics of the Peripatetics, Cartesians, and Atomists, as compared to the True Physics of Aristotle).

Pace takes pains to refuse the interpretations given by various other Aristotelian commentators or by philosophers in general.

At the end of his work, Pace includes an illustration on the physical structure of the eye, and the brain.

However, if the third extant volume is anything to go by with, they must have been enormously interesting from a philosophical point of view.

He was not part of the great monastic movements, and yet he seems to have been a considerable success, both locally and abroad.