Abstract
At the University of Padua, an academic center known for law, medicine, and Aristotelian natural philosophy, Dominican friars lectured on theology and metaphysics in via sancti Thomae.¹ These Thomistic academic posts—as well as the professorships of Scotist theology and metaphysics—were not vestiges of the Middle Ages; rather, they were established by the Venetian Senate during the late Quattrocento. Those administering the University of Padua did not fund any professorships of theology until the 1470s, and formal support of Thomistic theology began in 1490.² While historians have recognized these major changes to the arts course at Padua, they have