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 brief treatise by Robortello, witnessed by miscellaneous manuscripts, deals with topics and discusses Aristotelian principles from the Prior Analytics, which are presented as a fundamental source for the rational faculties (Rhetoric, Poetics,…
The Compendio de i morali d'Aristotele is much more than a compendium of the Ethics, as it appears just looking at the very small number of pages. After a brief definition of soul, will and virtue, the author distinguishes between intellectual…
This is the vernacular translation of the pseudo-aristotelian treatise On virtues and vices from a Latin version by Niccolò da Lonigo (1428-1524) (cf. the Greek text in Rackham 1935; no mention to the Latin version by Leoniceno in the relevant…
At the age of 81, the Aristotelian philosopher Francesco Piccolomini wrote the Instituzione del principe and the Compendio della scienza civile dedicating the two works respectively to the young prince Cosimo de Medici and to his mother, the Grand…
Giovan Francesco Zeffi's translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian Rhetoric to Alexander is the first of few Italian translations of the work. It is dedicated to Antonio Prioli, 'procuratore di San Marco', and it is conceived as a handy compendium of…
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…
The work, unfinished, covers books I-III of Aristotle's Ethics. The introduction focuses on the main purposes of the interpreter underlining the difficulty of previous Aristotelian translations. The work is presented as the Italian translation of a…
Antonio Colombella, member of the Augustinian order, dedicates this translation of the Nicomachean Ethics - apparently based on the Latin text by Robert Grosseteste - to the young nobleman and merchant Pancrazio Giustiniani. The work includes an…
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.
The lecture, given at the Accademia degli Umoristi in Rome in 1605, deals with a section of Aristotle's Poetics on the opportunity of employing verse (and not prose) in epic poetry.
The work is a partial commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics: the author, Giovenale Ancina, approaches here passages from books 2, 7 and 12. Some of the annotations are in Latin. This is one of the rare cases of vernacular works on metaphysics.
The name of the translator appears in ms. Chig. M.VIII.162, f. 83v. Niccolò Anglico is not mentioned in the Paduan ms., which is incomplete both at the beginning and at the end. Grion 1868 (who gave an edition of the text), did not know the Vatican…
Though recorded as a single work, the two manuscripts Florence, BNC, II.I.20-21 are note really related: the first one contains the so-called Proloqui nella Rettorica and an incomplete Ragionamento della poesia; the second manuscript is made up of 5…
The compendium follows the structure and mostly the contents of the Nicomachean Ethics, so that this is very close to being a shortened paraphrase. The only part really missing seems to be that on contemplation in Book X and that on the problem of…
Though Aristotle is rarely mentioned, the Introduzione alla morale is clearly based on the Nicomachean Ethics, as it appears from the long section on virtues as medium terms among opposite vices, as well as in the final section on justice. The work…
Camillo Baldi's Ragionamenti sopra la Politica d'Aristotile is an incomplete commentary on Aristotle's Politics covering book I-V. The Bologna ms. (BU, 1075) is the original autograph copy of the text, rich in corrections and additions by the author…
This is a vernacular translation of Aristotle's Problemata, XIX, On harmony. As we know from other works by Bartoli, he was very interested in Greek theories of music and musical harmony.
Beltrami's notes to Bulgarini discuss the notion of allegory referring to several sources. The main frame of Beltrami's account is Aristotelian: as stated in the preface letter, he is following the division of Aristotle's text (Poetics) below Maggi…
Ercole Bottrigari's translation of Aristotle's On Things Heard, dated 1606, is followed by the translation of an other Aristotelian short treatise (On Breath). The two works are part of the same translation project and witness the translator's…
Ercole Bottrigari's translation of Aristotle's On Breath, dated 1606, follows the translation of an other Aristotelian short treatise (On Things Heard). The two works are part of the same translation project and witness the translator's interest in…
Breventano's treatise is mainly based on Aristotle's Ethics and Rhetoric, but other classical — as well as christian — authors are often quoted. A general introduction on the notion of virtue, very based on Cicero and Aristotle, is followed by…
The censure on Alessandro Piccolomini's Annotationi nel libro della Poetica di Aristotele collect several remarks (mainly critical) on Piccolomini's interpretation of Aristotelian passages witnessing - together with other contemporary documents - the…