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…
Though recorded as a single work, the two manuscripts Florence, BNC, II.I.20-21 are note really related: the first one contains the so-called Proloqui nella Rettorica and an incomplete Ragionamento della poesia; the second manuscript is made up of 5…
The translation is dedicated to Francesco Maria II della Rovere by the obscure Tito Corneo d'Urbino. The preface is dated 8 September 1617. The extant manuscript Vatican City, BAV, Urb. Lat. 1331 is a beautiful dedication copy with layout inspired by…
Vittorio Venturelli translated and commented on Aristotle's Meteorology for the duke of Urbino Francesco Maria II Della Rovere. The work opens with a dedicatory epistle followed by a complete accessus which has the function of a general introduction…
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…
The work discusses the ways a prince should approach philosophical contents and, above all, moral and political philosophy. The author does not focus on specific matters, but finds in Aristotle the main reference for an ideal compendium.
Fabio Albergati's Le morali is a treatise on virtues very based on Aristotle's Nicoamachean Ethics. The work was first published in 1627, after Fabio's death (1606), by the author's son, Antonio, bishop of Bisceglie, who dedicated the book to pope…
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…
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…
Troilo Lancetta (under the pseudonym Lootri Nacattel) publishes here a section from Cesare Cremonini's commentary on Aristotle's Meteorology ('Contro gli astrologhi giudiciari', p. 131-364).
The first part is a critical discussion of rainbow and its nature (the work opens with a defence of the 'new philosophy' based on the sensate esperienze: Galileo is obviously mentioned). The second part is a thorough commentary of the section on the…
After a long introduction, Aristotle's text is divided into 44 particelle, translated and thoroughly commented. The introduction deserves attention for it is rich in general remarks on the importance of Logic as the main rational faculty. It is very…
The brief treatise by Robortello, witnessed by miscellaneous manuscripts, deals with topics and discusses Aristotelian principles from the Prior Analytics, which are presented as a fundamental source for the rational faculties (Rhetoric, Poetics,…
Giovan Francesco Zeffi's translation of the pseudo-Aristotelian Rhetoric to Alexander is the first of few Italian translations of the work. It is dedicated to Antonio Prioli, 'procuratore di San Marco', and it is conceived as a handy compendium of…