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  • Branch of philosophy is exactly "Moral Philosophy"

The treatise focuses on virtues from a christian perspective. It is nevertheless largely indebted to the Aristotelian treatment of virtues in the Ethics.

Paper, ff. 110, mm. 215_150. Dedication copy, beautifully written in a calligraphic hand.

8°. a8-b8, A8-M8. ff. [14], pp. 97, ff. [4]. Italics. mm. 90×145.

Panfilo Persico conceived this work as a compendium of Aristotle's Ethics and Politics. The manuscript copy (Vatican City, ASV,Borghese IV.16) is a first version, dedicated to cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli, who was a renown Aristotelian…

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

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.…

4°; a-e4; ff. [20], pp. 40. Preface in Italics, text in Roman with Latin quotations in Italics. mm. 160×220.

As the author affirms in the dedication letter, the Discorsi, to which Pona refers as Lezioni morali, were given at the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona. After a preamble and a commentary on the title, the commentator quotes passages from Nicomachean…

The Discorso was written in 1565 by Francesco De Vieri on the occasion of Francesco I de Medici's wedding; it is thus dedicated to the duke and his wife, Johanna of Austria. The work, conceived as a thorough discussion of philosophy and its…
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