Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century - Luca Bianchi

This volume isbased on an international colloquium held at the Warburg Institute, London,on 21-2 June 2013, and entitled 'Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance:Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular'. It situates and explores vernacularAristotelianism in a broad chronological context, with a geographical focus onItaly. 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, dialoguesand works targeted at women. The wide-ranging and rich material presented inthe volume is intended to stimulate scholars to develop this promising area ofresearch still further.

Table of Contents:

Preface (pp. ix-x)

Introduction (pp. 1-5)

LucaBianchi, Simon Gilson and Jill Kraye

Giles of Rome's De regimine principum and the Vernacular Translations: TheReception of the Aristotelian Tradition and the Problem of Courtesy (pp. 7-29)

Fiammetta Papi

Uses of Latin Sources in RenaissanceVernacularization of Aristotle: The Case of Galeazzo Florimonte, FrancescoVenier and Francesco Pona (pp. 31-55)

Luca Bianchi

Alessandro Piccolomini's Mission: Philosophyfor Men and Women in their Mother Tongue (pp. 57-73)

LetiziaPanizza

Francesco Robortello on Popularizing Knowledge(75-92)

MarcoSgarbi

Aristotelian Commentaries and the Dialogue Formin Cinquecento Italy (pp. 93-107)

EugenioRefini

Aristotle's Politicsin the Dialogi della morale filosofiaof Antonio Brucioli (pp. 109-122)

GraceAllen

'The best works of Aristotle': Antonio Bruciolias a Translator of Natural Philosophy (pp. 123-138)

EvaDel Soldato

Vernacular Meteorology and the Antiquity of theEarth in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (pp. 139-159)

IvanoDal Prete

Vernacularizing Meteorology: Benedetto Varchi'sComento sopra il primo libro delle Meteored'Aristotile (pp. 161-181)

SimonGilson

Bartolomeo Beverini (1629-1686) e una versioneinedita della Metafisica diAristotele (pp. 183-208)

CorinnaOnelli

Index of Manuscripts and Incunables (p. 209)

Indexof Names (pp. 210-216)