Saverius Pace was a minor Maltese philosopher who specialised in physics.

Life

Little is known about the private life of Saverius Pace. Neither his dates of birth and death nor his birth place in Malta are identified as yet. He might have lectured at the Collegium Melitense see

University of Malta

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 in Valletta

Valletta

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. Unfortunately, only one work of Pace survived. Unfortunately, no portrait of Pace is known to exist so far.

Known works

Pace’s only work which is still extant is Elucidario in quatru libru Phisicoru Aristotelis (An Examination of the first four Books of Aristotle’s ‘Physics’), written in 1649 (begun in May of that year). The manuscript is written in old Italian or Sicilian, and held at the National Library of Malta

National Library of Malta

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, Valletta

Valletta

Valletta is the capital of Malta, colloquially known as Il-Belt in Maltese. It is located in the central-eastern portion of the island of Malta, and the historical city has a population of 6,098. The name "Valletta" is traditionally reserved for the historic walled citadel that serves as Malta's...

, marked as MS. 1465. Its pages are not numbered.

The work is a detailed philosophical examination of the first four out of the eight books of Aristotle’s Physics. Its division is typical of Scholasticism

Scholasticism

Scholasticism is a method of critical thought which dominated teaching by the academics of medieval universities in Europe from about 1100–1500, and a program of employing that method in articulating and defending orthodoxy in an increasingly pluralistic context...

, and hence organised in Articles and Conclusions.

Sources

• Mark Montebello, Il-Ktieb tal-Filosofija f’Malta (A Source Book of Philosophy in Malta), PIN Publications, Malta, 2001.