His views on
future contingents were controversial, being opposed by
Henry of Zomeren, also at
Leuven (French: Louvain).[1] De Rivo went to Rome in 1472 to defend his views to
Pope Sixtus IV; they were condemned in 1473.[2] Under pressure from the influence of
Cardinal Bessarion to whom Henry had as secretary,[3] de Rivo retracted partially his opinions in 1473, and more fully three years later.[4] This meant that views going back at least to
Peter Auriol, that future contingents lacked a
truth value, had become heretical in the view of the Catholic Church.[5]
References
Léon Baudry (editor), The Quarrel Over Future Contingents (Louvain, 1465-1475): Unpublished Texts (1989), translated by Rita Guerlac
Notes
^George Henry Radcliffe Parkinson, Stuart Shanker, Routledge History of Philosophy (1999), p. 381.
^John Monfasani, Fernando of Cordova: A Biographical and Intellectual Profile (1992), p.36.
^Paul Oskar Kristeller, Itinerarium Italicum: The Profile of the Italian Renaissance in the Mirror (1975), p. 226.
^Steven Vanden Broecke, The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology (2003), p. 51.