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The work, offered by Francesco Sansovino to Pandolfo Attavanti, is presented as a translation of Aristotle's On the Soul, but it is rather a compendium of Aristotelian psychology. The name of the translator is not explicitly mentioned, though the…

4°. *-**4, ***2, A-Z4, AA-EE4. ff. 122: [10], p. 201, [11]. Type: text in roman; titles in italics. 220x153 mm.

8°. *4, A-Q8, R-S4. ff. 139 [i.e. 140-1]: [4-1], 134, 2. Dedication in italics; text in roman. 105×165 mm.

Paper; ff. [1], 189, [3]; mm. 260_200. Beautiful copy (cf. mss. Urb. Lat. 1335, 1338).

Paper; ff. [2], 361; mm. 260_200. Beautiful copy (cf. mss. Urb. Lat. 1335, 1338).

Vittorio Venturelli's translation of (and commentary on) Aristotle's Parva Naturalia follows the same author's version of Aristotle's Meteorology. The two works are in fact part of the same project addressed to the duke of Urbino Francesco Maria II…

Paper; ff. I, [6], 87, [6], II; mm. 140_200. Beautiful copy. Some of the initials letters are decorated in gold (ff. 1r, 4r, 32r).

The Breve ragionamento follows in the ms. Florence, BNC, Magl.XII.12 a Latin work by the same author on a similar subject (Epilogus doctrinam Aristotelis de anima quam brevissime complectens, ff. 4r-25v), dedicated - as the Italian one - to the duke…