Ethica d'Aristotile
Aristotelian work
Date: 1430
Work ref: 117
Multiple work: No
Type: Prose
Dedicatee
GIUSTINIANI PancrazioExtant versions
Manuscript copiesGenre
TranslationRelated to Aristotle's
Nicomachean EthicsDescription
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 outstanding paratext (foreword and afterword) in which the translator approaches in a most interesting and critical way issues of translation discussing the opposition verbum de verbo / ad sensum as well as the contribution of the commentary tradition to understand those passages of the text which seem to be irremediably obscure.Manuscript copies
Modena, BEU, It. 279 [alpha P.5.6]Bibliography
Iter I, 375a; Fava 1925: 274, n°99; Fava and Salmi 1973: II, n°185, 119-120.Citation
Eugenio Refini, ‘Ethica d'Aristotile’, in Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARIDB)
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