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Unit n°23, mm. 273_205; ff. 6 [219r-225v].

Unit n°18, mm. 210_290; ff. 6 [153r-158r]. The text copied is rich in additions and corrections, which witness at least a revision of the copy.

Relevant unit: mm. 225_310; ff. 5 [103v-107v].

Beautiful copy of the text; corrections and additions which appear on the margins in the other manuscripts, are here part of the text.

Paper; misc., comp. (26 units); ff. [III], [2], 336, [2], [III]; measures varying. Unit 17: mm. 272_204.

The lecture addressed to Eleonora de Toledo, member of the Accademia degli Alterati under the name of "Ardente", is conceived as a general discussion of Alessandro Piccolomini's interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics, the Annotationi nel libro della…

The lecture — related to the Accademia degli Alterati as well as the other pieces in the miscellaneous ms. Ricc. 2435 — deals with a defence of Dante's Commedia as a poema eroico: the author aims at demonstrating that the poem perfectly fits in with…

Paper; mm. 141x200; ff. 10, 2 (old page numbers: 178-187). Cursive handwriting. The ms. was part of ms. Pal. 1095; on f. 10v, autograph note by Francesco Redi. Modern binding.

The oration by Niccolò Aggiunti (who was one of Galileo's disciples and the successor of Benedetto Castelli as professor of mathematics in Pisa since 1626), held in front of the Tuscan princes, deals with a strong defence of Galileo Galilei mainly…

Paper; ff. [II], 623, [II]; mm. 200_260. Contemporary binding. The last page not numbered as a date: '16 ott. 1609'. An different title, L'Ethica di Fabio Albergati, though erased, is still readable on the spine of the book. The title Del sommo bene.…

Paper; ff. [IV], 94, [IV]; mm. 270_202. Later binding. The text is closer to the Vatican copy (Urb. Lat. 1391) than to the printed edition of 1627.

Paper; mm. 270_201; ff. [I], [3: a-c], 20, [3], [I]. The text is not easily legible because of a protective film applied on the pages.

4°. [I tomo] +-++4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Yyy4; [II tomo] +4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Nnn4, a4-k4. ff. [8], pp. 542, f. [1]; ff. [4], pp. 472, ff. [40]. Text in Roman, titles of paragraphs in Italics.

4°. §4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Mmm4, Nnn6. ff. [4], pp. 427, ff. 24. Text in Roman, quotations in Italics. mm. 220×150.

Fabio Albergati's Le morali is a treatise on virtues very based on Aristotle's Nicoamachean Ethics. The work was first published in 1627, after Fabio's death (1606), by the author's son, Antonio, bishop of Bisceglie, who dedicated the book to pope…

As Albergati states in the preface letter to cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, he had been asked to write the work by cardinal Francisco de Toledo Herrera in order to reprobate Jean Bodin's political theories by means of a strong defence of Aristotle's.…

The work discusses the ways a prince should approach philosophical contents and, above all, moral and political philosophy. The author does not focus on specific matters, but finds in Aristotle the main reference for an ideal compendium.
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