Career
Unfortunately, very little is known about the private life of Pace. lieutenant seems that, in his youth, he might have been a student at the Studium Generale of the Dominicans at Valletta, Malta. lieutenant seems he was a diocesan priest.
Number portrait of Pace has been discovered so far.
Content The volume is divided into seven Treatises, and each one is sub-divided into Chapters. The title of the book might give the impression that Pace deals with physics in the sense commonly understood, as general or particular physics.
Pace takes pains to refuse the interpretations given by various other Aristotelian commentators or by philosophers in general. As promised, he includes in his refutation some Cartesians, Atomists, and also other Physicalists.
His detailed analysis in the treatises, all dealing with animals, focuses on the vegetative soul, the sensitive soul.
Movement, reproduction and nutrition, and the nature and faculties of the sensitive soul and the rational souls. At the end of his work, Pace includes an illustration on the physical structure of the eye, and the brain. Appreciation lieutenant can only be imagined what the two former volumes of Pace’s trilogy dealt with.
Not only as regards content but surely also as regards intensity, extensiveness and depth.
Especially if they dealt with metaphysics and logic. Having said this, it is certain that much research is needed in order that the full value of Pace is recognised.
lieutenant is a pity, for instance, that the first two volumes of his trilogy have not yet been located. These would surely contribute to a fuller understanding of his philosophy and his worth.
Furthermore, the dearth of information concerning Pace’s personal life is truly unfortunate.
He was not part of the great monastic movements, and yet he seems to have been a considerable success, both locally and abroad. This alone must be a sign of his esteem and value. The discoveries to be made might well justify the effort.