Biography
Probably from the Italian town of Asti, Facinus lectured on the Sentences 1361-1363 at Paris. He leaves Paris as baccalaureus formatus for Avignon (cf. Trapp) or Bologna (cf. Courtenay). One manuscript reads: et sic est finis huius primi Sententiarum complete et lecti per eximium sacre theologie doctorem magistrum Fastinum de Ast ordinis heremitarum s. Augustini et hoc a. D. MCCCLXIII die sexta mensis Maii.
Cf. I. Bodnar, « Facinus de Ast, Opera philosophica I, Tractatus de maximo et minimo », in Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age 64 (1997), pp. 407-437.
W. Schum, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Amplonianischen Handschriften-Sammlung zu Erfurt, Berlin 1887, p. 79 (n° 115).