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Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth century / edited by Luca Bianchi, Simon Gilson and Jill Kraye.
- Title
- Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth century / edited by Luca Bianchi, Simon Gilson and Jill Kraye.
- Publication
- London : The Warburg Institute, 2016.
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- Description
- vii, 216 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This volume situates and explores vernacular Aristotelianism in a broad chronological context, with a geographical focus on Italy. The disciplines covered include political thought, ethics, poetics, rhetoric, logic, natural philosophy, cosmology, meteorology and metaphysics; and among the genres considered are translations, popularizing commentaries, dialogues and works targeted at women. The wide-ranging and rich material presented in the volume is intended to stimulate scholars to develop this promising area of research still further.
- Series Statement
- Warburg Institute colloquia ; 29
- Uniform Title
- Warburg Institute colloquia ; 29.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Translations
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction / Luca Bianchi, Simon Gilson and Jill Kraye -- Giles of Rome's De rigimine principum and the vernacular translations : the reception of the Aristotelian tradition and the problem of courtesy / Fiammentta Papi -- Uses of Latin sources in Renaissance vernacularizations of Aristotle: the cases of Galeazzo Florimonte, Francesco Venier and Francesco Pona / Luca Bianchi -- Alessandro Piccolomini's mission : philosophy for men and women in their mother tongue / Letizia Panizza -- Fracesco Robertello on popularizing knowledge / Marco Sgarbi --- Aristotelian commentaries and dialogue form in Cinquecento Italy / Eugenio Refini --- Aristotle's Politics in d the Dialogi della morale filosofia of Antonio Brucioli / Grace Allen -- 'The Best Worlks of Aristotle': Antonoio Brucioli as a translator of natural philosophy / Eva Del Soldato -- Vernacular meteorology and the antiquity of the earth in Medieval and Renaissance Italy / Ivano Dal Prete -- Vernacularizing Meteorology: Benedetto Varchi's Comento sopra il primo libro delle Meteore d' Aristotile / Simon Gilson -- Bartolomeo Beverini (1629-1686) e una versione indedta della Metafisca di Aristotele / Corinna Onelli -- Index of manuscripts and incunables -- Index of names.
- ISBN
- 9781908590527
- OCLC
- 984841813
- SCSB-12835163
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library