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Giovanni Manenti's work is a collection of three Aristotelian texts which had a wide circulation during the Middle Ages: according to Zinelli 2000: 538-541, Manenti's vernacular version of the Secret of secrets seems to draw on Vivaldo Belcalzèr's…

4°. [*]4, A-Z4, AA-FF4. ff. [7], CXII [i.e. 113]. mm. 150×210. Roman.

Paper; ff. I, 40; mm. 170_228. Original binding in parchment with golden decorations. Beautiful copy of Francesco Piccolomini's Instituzione; the dedication letter is copied by a different hand, possibly the author's (cf. Siena, BC, G.VII.36). The…

Paper; pp. 248 + I f. [blank]; mm. 268_200; old binding in parchment; beautiful copy of the text.

Paper; ff. [1], 191 [171-191 blank]; old binding in vellum; possibly autograph by Francesco Piccolomini (at any rate different from all the other extant copies which are clearly calligraphic ones realised by scribes).

Paper; ff. I, [3], 186, [3], I; mm. 206_145. The text appears as in the ms. Siena, BComunale, G.VII.36.

Paper; ff. [7], 78, [2]; mm. 290_210. Original binding in parchment; title on spine: 'Institutione del principe regio del [Piccolomini]'.

Paper; ff. [2] + 140; mm. 210_150. Binding in parchment.

Paper; ff. [3], 112, [7]; old binding in parchment; title on spine: 'Piccolomini / Morale'; mm. 248_180.

Paper; ff. [2], 201, [2]; mm. 200_265; original binding in parchment. Beautiful copy written in an elegant cursive hand (early 17th c.). The Institutione at ff. 3r-38v; the Compendio at ff. 39r-196v.

Paper; ff. 74; mm. 195_263. Old binding in parchment. Title on spine: 'Manu script. Intro. alla Morale'.

The two treatises form a sort of compendium of ethics and rhetoric slavishly based on Aristotle's works.

Paper; ff. [II], 95, [III]. mm. 238_340; card binding. Ex libris “P.A. Guadagni”; "Ciaccheri" (f. 1r).

Though Aristotle is rarely mentioned, the Introduzione alla morale is clearly based on the Nicomachean Ethics, as it appears from the long section on virtues as medium terms among opposite vices, as well as in the final section on justice. The work…

Paper; mm. 192_144; ff. [I], pp. 60, ff. [11 of which 2-11 blank], f. [1], pp. 15, [one double-folio between 14 e 15], f. [1], pp.22. Partly numbered; binding in parchment; old shefmark: 17.O.II.76.

The compendium follows the structure and mostly the contents of the Nicomachean Ethics, so that this is very close to being a shortened paraphrase. The only part really missing seems to be that on contemplation in Book X and that on the problem of…

8°. A-D4, E2. ff. 18. Dedication and text italics. mm. 100x150.

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°; ff. 97: ff. [4], pp. 185, p. [1]; ¶4, A-Z4 + 1; mm. 250×150.

The volume, printed in France in 1568 and edited by the fuoriuscito Jacopo Corbinelli, is the editio princeps of Brunetto Latini's compendium of the Ethics from his Trésor. The textual tradition of the work is most controversial, for it is linked to…