Quomodo sit omnipotens cum multa non possit. Anselmo d’Aosta e Pier Damiani sull’onnipotenza divina

The article aims to analyse the debate that characterized the Eleventh Century in the light of divine omnipotence, with particular regard to the speculations of Peter Damian and Anselm of Aosta. After presenting the dispute between Lanfranc of Pavia and Berengar of Tours about the role and the function of the ars dialectica, the article focuses on Damian’s De divina omnipotentia, underling the radicalism of the approach defended by the Italian monk. The article proceeds by analysing the position supported by Anselm in the Proslogion, in the De libertate arbitrii, in the De casu diaboli and in the Cur Deus homo, with the aim of highlighting the centrality of Anselm’s approach in the later history of Medieval philosophy