The first manuscript, which is a miscellaneous and heterogeneous one, contains a single section of Salviati's commentary which deals with the previous exegetical works on the Poetics ('Degl'interpreti di questo libro della poetica', ff. 25r-26v: the…
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 work, unfinished, covers books I-III of Aristotle's Ethics. The introduction focuses on the main purposes of the interpreter underlining the difficulty of previous Aristotelian translations. The work is presented as the Italian translation of a…
This is the Italian translation of Alessandro Piccolomini's In Mechanicas Quaestiones Aristotelis Paraphrasis paulo quidem plenior (Rome: Antonio Blado, 1547).
The paraphrase is copied after Torelli's death (1608). The work opens with an introduction which focuses on the main issues to be discussed in the paraphrase. Torelli turns sometimes to poetical examples from the Italian tradition in order to explain…
The academic oration is assigned by a later hand to Francesco Sommari who read it in the School of Simone della Rocca (cf. gloss in ms. Florence, BNC, Magl. VII.1207). Even though quite far from being an original text, the oration is widely based on…
The oration by Niccolò Aggiunti (who was one of Galileo's disciples and the successor of Benedetto Castelli as professor of mathematics in Pisa since 1626), held in front of the Tuscan princes, deals with a strong defence of Galileo Galilei mainly…
The short work is a collection of sentences from the pseudo-Aristotelian Letters. In the ms. Bologna, BU, 3658 it is copied within a miscellaneous collection of moral works including Cecco d'Ascoli's Acerba and the famous Fiore di virtù.
The anonymous work, probably written at the end of the 16th c., is a paraphrase of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics which covers all the 10 books. Some of the books have specific titles.
The Mascalcia is probably linked to the pseudo-Aristotelian De omnibus infirmitatibus equorum (cf. Vatican City, BAV, ms. Ott. Lat. 2412, ff. 101-112, as mentioned by Schmitt and Knox 1985), though Poulle-Drieux 1996 attributes the work to Giordano…
The collection of tables and diagrams is meant to work as a compendium of logic. The anonymous author gives an interesting remark as introduction to the work: 'Le Tavole che comprendono molte cose in poche parole e con vago ordine, aiutano…
After a rather long introduction, the anonymous commentary - whose sections are misplaced in the ms. Venice, BNM, It. VIII.28 - proceeds explaining short Latin lemmas from Aristotle's Rhetoric, book 1, which might be useful in order to recognize the…
The anonymous translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric, based on the Latin version which was circulating during the Middle Ages and witnessed by the ms. Vatican City, BAV, Chig. M.VI.126, might be the earliest vernacular translation of the work. The…
The anonymous translation of the Economics is witnessed by a manuscript (Venice, BNM, It. II.134) in which the text appears as part of a compilation including a compendium of the Ethics (largely coinciding with Taddeo Alderotti's) and vernacular…
Francesco de Vieri's Lezzioni d'amore are two lectures held at the Accademia Fiorentina in 1556. The work is conceived as a thorough commentary on Guido Cavalcanti's Donna me prega. Though their main subject is love, the two lectures are largely…