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Antonio Riccobono, previously asked to explain a passage from Aristotle's Politics concerning Hyppodamus's republic, writes to Cosimo Concini referring to a dispute which involved scholars such as Marc-Antoine Muret and Pietro Vettori. In the…

The anonymous compendium of Aristotle's Politics might be dated around 1598 (the text is followed in the ms. Rome, BVall, R 55 by a document copied by the same hand in 1598). An other copy of the work, copied by the same scribe, but in a more cursive…

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. I, 533, I. Old binding. Title on spine: 'Trattati / Di Politica / E Ragioni Di / Stato'. Unit 1, ff. 7r-53v: mm. 205_280.

Paper; ff. 113; mm. 200_275. Possibly autograph; written by a single hand (the same which copies the preface of the Instituzione in ms. Ricc. 2589). Old (probably original) binding in cardboard and parchment with golden decorations. This might be –…

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.…

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…

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…

Paper; in folio; 2 miscellaneous volumes; same binding in parchment; I: ff. [II] + 293 + [I]. II: ff. [II] + 275 + [I]. Title on the spine: 'Miscellanea / di cose / filosofiche / e / morali'. Autograph by Camillo Baldi. Relevant unit: mm. 220_310;…

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…

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

Parchment; ff. 330; mm. 270_190; illuminated initials with animals and vegetal decorations.

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. 289; modern binding; measures variable: 1. ff. 2r-121r, mm. 340_243; 2. ff. 122r-289v, mm. 298_220. Whereas ms. Florence, BNC, Ginori Conti App. 3 is a beautiful copy of the text, ms. Ricc. 2431 is a sketchy version of the…