The work is a treatise of moral philosophy conceived as a pedagogical tool since it follows the education and training of a noble man (gentiluomo) from childhood to first maturity. It is a sort of compendium/paraphrase of Aristotle's Ethics, but book…
The work is mentioned by Haym (Biblioteca Italiana: II, 482) and Mazzucchelli (Scrittori d'Italia: II, 4, 2151) as printed in Venice by Curzio Troiano Navò in 1545, but no copies seem to be extant.
The work by Tartaglia, which appeared in three different editions (1546, 1554, 1565 c.), included a partial commentary on Pseudo-Aristotle's Mechanics (section VI, ed. 1554).