Peter of Compostela

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Peter of Compostela (Latin: Petrus Compostellanus) is the name given to the author of De consolatione rationis (The Consolation of Reason). This was a prosimetrum based on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. He is now thought to have been a grammar teacher in Santiago de Compostela between 1317 and 1330, but was previously conjectured to have been a bishop in the twelfth century.

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  • Cardelle de Hartmann, Carmen (2007). Lateinische Dialoge 1200–1400: literaturhistorische Studie und Repertorium. Leiden: Brill. pp. 506–507. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004160330.i-826.175. ISBN 9789004160330.
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