Primary Sources

A comprehensive list of critical editions of Olivi’s works has been published in König-Pralong, Ribordy, and Suarez-Nani (eds.), 2010, 463–71. The list below contains works cited in the present entry, as well as a selection of his philosophically most important works.

• “De perlegendis philosophorum libris,” ed. F. Delorme, Antonianum 16 (1941): 37–44. (Scholar)
• “Epistola ad fratrem R.,” ed. S. Piron et al., Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 91 (1998): 33–64. [Correspondence related to the 1283 condemnation.] (Scholar)
• “Impugnatio quorundam articulorum Arnaldi Galliardi, art. 19,” ed. S. Piron, in Pierre de Jean Olivi—Philosophe et théologien (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010), 453–62. (Scholar)
• Lectura super Apocalypsim, ed. W. Lewis (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 2016).
• Lectura super Proverbia et Lectura super Ecclesiasten, ed. J. Schlageter (Grottaferrata: Editiones Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 2003).
• Peter of John Olivi on Genesis, ed. D. Flood (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 2007). [Latin edition.]
• Peter of John Olivi on the Acts of the Apostles, ed. D. Flood (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 2001). [Latin edition.]
• Peter of John Olivi on the Bible, ed. D. Flood & G. Gál (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1997). [Latin edition.]
• “Petri Iohannis Olivi Tractatus de verbo,” ed. R. Pasnau, Franciscan Studies (Essays in Honor of Fr. Gedeon Gál) 53 (1993) 121–53. [Excerpt from the Commentary on the Gospel of John. Published in 1997.] (Scholar)
• Quaestio de usu paupere and Tractatus de usu paupere, ed. D. Burr (Florence: Olschki, 1992). [Olivi’s strict and therefore controversial views on how to understand the Franciscan vow of poverty.]
• Quaestiones de incarnatione et redemptione. Quaestiones de virtutibus, ed. A. Emmen and E. Stadter (Grottaferrata: Editiones Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 1981). [Latin edition of Summa Bk. III.] (Scholar)
• Quaestiones de novissimis ex Summa super IV sententiarum, ed. P. Maranesi (Grottaferrata: Editiones Collegii S. Bonaventurae, 2004). [Latin edition of some questions from Summa Bk. IV.] (Scholar)
• Quaestiones de perfectione evangelica q. 8: “An status altissimae paupertatis sit simpliciter melior omni statu divitiarum,” ed. J. Schlageter, Das Heil der Armen und das Verderben der Reichen: Petrus Johannis Olivi OFM: Die Frage nach der höchsten Armut, 73–210 (Werl: Dietrich-Coelde, 1989). [= QPE] (Scholar)
• Quaestiones in primum librum Sententiarum, in Quaestiones in secundum librum Sententiarum (Volume 3, Appendix), ed. B. Jansen (Quaracchi: Collegium S. Bonaventurae, 1926). [= Summa I] (Scholar)
• Quaestiones in secundum librum Sententiarum (Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica 4–6), ed. B. Jansen (Quaracchi: Collegium S. Bonaventurae, 1922–26). [= Summa II] [Latin edition of Summa Bk. II. Includes selected questions from Bk. I.] (Scholar)
• Quaestiones logicales, ed. S. Brown, Traditio 42 (1986) 335–88.
• Quid ponat ius vel dominium, ed. F. Delorme and S. Piron, Oliviana 5 (2016), available online [= Summa IV q. 1] (Scholar)
• Quodlibeta quinque, ed. S. Defraia (Grottaferrata: Editiones Collegii S. Bonaventurae ad Claras Aquas, 2002).
• Tractatus de contractibus, in Pierre de Jean Olivi, Traité des contrats, ed. & trans. S. Piron. Bibliothèque scolastique 5 (Paris, Les Belles-Lettres, 2012).
• “Tria scripta apologetica,” ed. D. Laberge, Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 28 (1935) 115–55, 374–407. [Edits Olivi’s responses to the charges brought against him in 1283.] (Scholar)

Translations

• Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, trans. R.J. Karris (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 2011).
• “De perlegendis philosophorum libris,” trans. C. König-Pralong, O. Ribordy & T. Suarez-Nani, in Pierre de Jean Olivi—Philosophe et théologien (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010), 409–50. (Scholar)
• La matière, trans. T. Suarez-Nani et al. (Paris: Vrin, 2009). [French translation of Summa II, qq. 16–21.] (Scholar)
• Quelle réalite construit le droit ou le pouvoir? Trans. S. Piron, Oliviana 2016. [French translation of Quid ponat ius.]
• Questions sur la foi: Traduction des questions VIII et IX de virtutibus, trans. N. Faucher (Paris: Vrin, 2021). [French translation of selected questions from Summa III.]
• “The Mental Word” (= Tractatus de verbo), in R. Pasnau (tr.) Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts. Volume 3: Mind and Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002) 136–51.
• “The Sum of Questions on The Sentences [of Peter Lombard],” trans. D. Flood & O. Bychkov, Franciscan Studies, 66 (2008), pp. 83–99. [English translation of Summa I q. 1.] (Scholar)
• Treatise on Contracts, trans. R. Thornton & M. Cusato (St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2016). [English translation of Tractatus de contractibus.]
• “Why the Human Soul Cannot Be the Form of the Body” (= Summa II q. 51), in Basic Issues in Medieval Philosophy, ed. R. N. Bosley & M. M. Tweedale (Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2006).

Secondary Sources

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• –––, 2017. Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to Descartes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Bettoni, Efrem, 1959. Le dottrina filosofiche di Pier di Giovanni Olivi, Milan: Vita e Pensiero. (Scholar)
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• Bobillier, Stève, 2020. L’ethique de la personne, Paris: Vrin.
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• –––, 1999. “Le concept de relation chez Pierre de Jean Olivi,” in Pierre de Jean Olivi (1248–1298): Pensée scolastique, dissidence spirituelle et société, ed. A. Boureau & S. Piron, Paris: Vrin, pp. 42–55. (Scholar)
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• Burr, David, 1971. “Peter John Olivi and the Philosophers,” Franciscan Studies, 31: 41–71. (Scholar)
• –––, 1976. “The Persecution of Peter Olivi,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 66: 3–98. (Scholar)
• –––, 1989. Olivi and Franciscan Poverty: The Origins of the Usus Pauper Controversy, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1993. Olivi’s Peaceable Kingdom: A Reading of the Apocalypse Commentary, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (Scholar)
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• Douie, Decima, 1932. The Nature and Effect of the Heresy of the Fraticelli, Manchester: Manchester University Press. (Scholar)
• Dumont, Stephen, 1995. “The Origin of Scotus’s Theory of Synchronic Contingency,” Modern Schoolman, 72(2-3): 149–67. (Scholar)
• Franciscan Studies 74, 2016. [A special issue on Olivi.]
• Frost, Gloria, 2014. “Peter Olivi’s Rejection of God’s Concurrence with Created Causes,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 22(4): 655–79. (Scholar)
• Gieben, S., 1968. “Bibliographia Oliviana (1885–1967),” Collectanea Franciscana, 38: 167–95. (Scholar)
• Jansen, Bernhard, 1921. Die Erkenntnislehre Olivis, Berlin: Duemmlers. (Scholar)
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• Kent, Bonnie, 1984. Aristotle and the Franciscans. Gerald Odonis’ Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995. Virtues of the Will: The Transformation of Ethics in the Late Thirteenth Century, Washington: The Catholic University of America Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017. “Our Inalienable Ability to Sin: Peter Olivi’s Rejection of Asymmetrical Freedom,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 25(6): 1073–92. (Scholar)
• König-Pralong, C., Ribordy, O. & Suarez-Nani, T. (eds.), 2010. Pierre de Jean Olivi—Philosophe et théologien, Berlin: De Gruyter. (Scholar)
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• Langholm, Odd, 1992. Economics in the Medieval Schools: Wealth, Exchange, Value, Money & Usury According to the Paris Theological Tradition, 1200–1350. Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998. The Legacy of Scholasticism in Economic Thought: Antecedents of Choice and Power, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Martin, Christopher, 2007. “Self-Knowledge and Cognitive Ascent: Thomas Aquinas and Peter Olivi on the KK-Thesis,” in Forming the Mind: Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment, ed. H. Lagerlund, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 93–108. (Scholar)
• Mauro, Vincento, 1997. “La disputa de anima tra Vitale du Four e Pietro di Giovanni Olivi,” Studi medievali, 38(1): 89–138. (Scholar)
• Mora-Márquez, Ana María, 2011. “Pragmatics in Peter John Olivi’s Account of Signification of Common Names,” Vivarium, 49(1-3): 150–64. (Scholar)
• Normore, Calvin, 2004, “Abelard’s Stoicism and Its Consequences,” in Stoicism. Traditions and Transformations, ed. S. Strange & J. Zupko, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 132–47. (Scholar)
• Pasnau, Robert, 1993. “Petri Iohannis Olivi Tractatus de verbo” in Franciscan Studies (Essays in Honor of Fr. Gedeon Gál), 53: 121–53. [Published in 1997.] (Scholar)
• –––, 1997a. Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997b. “Olivi on the Metaphysics of Soul,” Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 6(2): 109–32. (Scholar)
• –––, 1999. “Olivi on Human Freedom” in Pierre De Jean Olivi (1248–1298), Paris: Vrin, pp. 15–25. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011. Metaphysical Themes 1274–1671, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Perler, Dominik, 2002. Theorien der Intentionalität im Mittelalter, Frankfurt: Klostermann. [French translation, Paris: Vrin, 2003.] (Scholar)
• –––, 2020. Eine Person sein. Philosophische Debatten im Spätmittelalter, Frankfurt am Main: Klosterman. (Scholar)
• Pini, Giorgio, 2005. “Scotus’s Realist Conception of the Categories: His Legacy to Late Medieval Debates,” Vivarium, 43(1): 63–110. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008. “Reading Aristotle’s Categories as an Introduction to Logic: Later Medieval Discussions about Its Place in the Aristotelian Corpus,” in Medieval Commentaries on Aristotle’s Categories, ed. L. A. Newton, Leiden: Brill, pp. 145–81. (Scholar)
• Piron, Sylvain, 1996. “Vœu et contrat chez Pierre de Jean Olivi,” Les Cahiers du Centre de Recherches Historiques, 16. Piron 1996 available online (Scholar)
• –––, 1998. “Les oeuvres perdues d’Olivi: essai de reconstruction,” Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 91(3-4): 357–94. (Scholar)
• –––, 1999. Parcours d’un intellectuel franciscain. D’une théologie vers une pensée sociale: l’oeuvre de Pierre de Jean Olivi (ca. 1248–1298) et son traité ‘De contractibus’, Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Ph.D. dissertation. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006a. “Censures et condamnation de Pierre de Jean Olivi: enquête dans les marges du Vatican” Mélanges de l’Ecole française de Rome—Moyen Age, 118(2): 313–73. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006b. “Olivi et les averroïstes,” Freiburger Zeitschrift für Philosophie und Theologie, 53(1): 251–309. (Scholar)
• –––, 2007. “Léxpérience subjective selon Pierre de Jean Olivi,” in Généalogies du sujet: De Saint Anselme à Malebranche, ed. O. Boulnois, Paris: Vrin, pp. 43–54. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012. “Avant-propos – Présentation,” in Pierre de Jean Olivi, Traité des contrats, ed. & trans. S. Piron, Paris: Les Belles-Lettres, pp. 11–71. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016. “La question Quid ponat ius?” Oliviana, 5. Piron 2016 available online (Scholar)
• –––, 2020a. “Chronologie des écrits de Pierre de Jean Olivi,” Oliviana, 6. Piron 2020a available online (Scholar)
• –––, 2020b. “La liberté divine et la destruction des idées chez Olivi,” Oliviana, 6. Piron 2020b available online (Scholar)
• Putallaz, François-Xavier, 1991. La connaissance de soi au XIIIe siècle. De Matthieu d’Aquasparta à Thierry de Freiberg, Paris: Vrin. (Scholar)
• –––, 1995. Insolente liberté. Controverses et condamnations au XIIIe siècle, Paris: Cerf. (Scholar)
• Ribordy, Olivier, 2010. “Materia spiritualis: Implications anthropologiques de la doctrine de la matière développé par Pierre de Jean Olivi,” in C. König-Pralong, O. Ribordy & T. Suarez-Nani (eds.), 2010, pp. 181–227. (Scholar)
• Rode, Christian, 2014. “Olivis Ontologie des Rechts und des Sozialen,” in Das Gesetz – The Law – La Loi, ed. A. Speer & G. Guldentops, Miscellanea Mediaevalia (Volume 37), Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 371–82. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016. “Die Geburt des Kapitalismus aus dem Geist der franziskanischen Armutsbewegung: Der Kapitalbegriff bei Petrus Johannis Olivi,” in Geistige und körperliche Arbeit im Mittelalter, ed. G. Mensching, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 107–22. (Scholar)
• Rodolfi, Anna, 2010. “Pietro di Giovanni Olivi e il dibattito sull’attualità della materia,” in C. König-Pralong, O. Ribordy & T. Suarez-Nani (eds.), 2010, pp. 253–93. (Scholar)
• Schmutz, Jacob, 2001. “La doctrine médiévale des causes et la théologie de la nature pure (XIIIe-XVIIe siècles),” Revue Thomiste, 101(1-2): 217–64. (Scholar)
• Silva, José Filipe & Toivanen, Juhana, 2010. “The Active Nature of the Soul in Sense Perception: Robert Kilwardby and Peter Olivi,” Vivarium, 48(3-4): 245–78. (Scholar)
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• Toivanen, Juhana, 2007. “Peter Olivi on Internal Senses,” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 15(3): 427–54. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011. “Peter of John Olivi on the Psychology of Animal Action,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 49(4): 413–38. (Scholar)
• –––, 2012. “Peter Olivi on Practical Reasoning,” in Universality of Reason, Plurality of Philosophies in the Middle Ages, vol. II-2, ed. A. Musco et al., Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, pp. 1033–45. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013a. Perception and the Internal Senses: Peter of John Olivi on the Cognitive Functions of the Sensitive Soul, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013b. “Perceptual Self-Awareness in Seneca, Augustine, and Peter Olivi,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 51(3): 355–82. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015. “The Fate of the Flying Man: Medieval Reception of Avicenna’s Thought Experiment,” in Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy, 3: 64–98. [Includes an extensive section on Olivi.] (Scholar)
• –––, 2016a. “Peter Olivi on Political Power, Will, and Human Agency,” Vivarium, 54(1): 22–45. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016b. “Voluntarist Anthropology in Peter of John Olivi’s De contractibus,” Franciscan Studies, 74: 41–65. (Scholar)
• –––, 2018. “Cognitive Dispositions in the Psychology of Peter John Olivi,” in The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (habitus) in Medieval Philosophy, ed. N. Faucher & M. Roques, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 185–204. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2014. “Peter Olivi on Human Self-Knowledge: a Reassessment,” Franciscan Studies, 72: 173–224. (Scholar)
• –––, 2016. “Peter of John Olivi’s Allusions to the Condemnation of 7 March 1277 in Question 57 of His Quaestiones in Secundum Librum Sententiarum,” Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, 109(1-2): 47–98. (Scholar)
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• –––, 2007. “The Soul as an Entity: Dante, Aquinas, and Olivi,” in Forming the Mind: Essays on the Internal Senses and the Mind/Body Problem from Avicenna to the Medical Enlightenment, ed. H. Lagerlund, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 59–92. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008a. “Perceiving One’s Own Body,” in Theories of Perception in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy, ed. S. Knuuttila & P. Kärkkäinen, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 101–16. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008b. “Locating the Self Within the Soul: Thirteenth Century Discussions,” in Ancient Philosophy of the Self, ed. P. Remes & J. Sihvola, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 225–41. (Scholar)