Esplicatione sopra li doi libri della generatione et corruptione
—AQUINAS Thomas—Esplicatione sopra li doi libri della generatione et corruptione
Paper; ff. I, 60, [4], 54, [2], 29, [4]; mm. 100_153. Original binding in parchment; title on spine: 'ARIS-
LE'. At f. 1r, by a different hand: 'Accomodato à M[aestro] Josepho Gramaglia a Monte[.]', who might be the translator.
AQUINAS Thomas
Eugenio Refini
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Discorso sopra la Annotationi di Alessandro Piccolomini
1575-1600—Accademia degli Alterati—Discorso sopra la Annotationi di Alessandro Piccolomini
Accademia degli Alterati
1555—Anonymous—Compendio de i morali d'Aristotele
Anonymous
Accademia degli Alterati Discorso sopra la Annotationi di Alessandro Piccolomini
The lecture addressed to Eleonora de Toledo, member of the Accademia degli Alterati under the name of "Ardente", is conceived as a general discussion of Alessandro Piccolomini's interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics, the Annotationi nel libro della Poetica, which appeared in 1575. According to the Diario of the Alterati, the Annotationi by Piccolomini were discussed during the summer of the very same year (Weinberg 1954: 182); the Discorso, nowadays known through several manuscript copies, was written by Filippo Sassetti (to whom the text is sometimes assigned in library catalogues) but is to be considered as a collective work.
ROBORTELLO Francesco Discorso dei luoghi topici
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, Sophistic, Dialectics and Demonstration).
ROBORTELLO Francesco
Anonymous Compendio de i morali d'Aristotele
The Compendio de i morali d'Aristotele is much more than a compendium of the Ethics, as it appears just looking at the very small number of pages. After a brief definition of soul, will and virtue, the author distinguishes between intellectual virtues and moral virtues. The edition seems to be very rare (only two copies recorded by Edit 16).
This is the vernacular translation of the pseudo-aristotelian treatise On virtues and vices from a Latin version by Niccolò da Lonigo (1428-1524) (cf. the Greek text in Rackham 1935; no mention to the Latin version by Leoniceno in the relevant bibliography: Vitaliani 1892; Mugnai Carrara 1978; Green 1983; Mugnai Carrara 1991; on Leoniceno's aristotelian interest cf. ms. Bologna, Archiginnasio, B 3475, 15th-16th c., Collectanea in Eticis Aristotelis et Meteoris). The text opens with a preface by the translator to Bernardo Giustiniani: this is Bernardo di Ser Niccolò ‘del ramo della Cà granda della parrocchia di San Pantaleone', not to be confused with the more famous Bernardo Giustinian (cf. Zago 2001) (it is worth mentioning that the same Bernardo di Ser Niccolò appears as the dedicatee of Jacopo Campora's vernacular treatise De immortalitate anime). Both the translation and the commentary are very interesting for the author aims at demonstrating the strong relation between the treatise On Virtues and Vices and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Some useful remarks on the method followed in commenting on the text are given in the preface.
GALLINETA Lazzaro O.P.
1464—GALLINETA Lazzaro O.P.—De la virtù
PICCOLOMINI Francesco Compendio della scienza civile
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 Duchess of Tuscany, Cristina di Lorena, wife of Ferdinando I de Medici. The works were not meant to be printed, but had a manuscript circulation which numbers ten extant copies. Though conceived as two different works, the Instituzione and the Compendio were often copied together and presented as a single work divided into two parts. Manuscripts Florence, BRicc 2589 and BNC, Conv. Soppr. E.5.867 probably are the original, partly autograph, dedication copies of the two texts (the dedication to Cosimo is dated 1602 in the BRicc 2589). An other copy, possibly autograph, of the two works is Siena, BCom, G.VII.36. All the other manuscripts (which are calligraphic copies) contain both the Institutione and the Compendio (with the only exception of Siena, BCom, G.VII.47). Whereas the preface letter to Cosimo is always presente, the letter to Cristina is witnessed exclusively by mss. Florence, BRicc 2589 and Siena, BCom, G.VII.47. Whereas the Compendio draws on Aristotle's Ethics and Politics, the Institutione does not seem to be a strictly Aristotelian work (though the Philosopher is quoted a couple of times). A main point of reference for such works is Piccolomini's Universa philosophia de moribus, even though the author is very clear in stating the differences between scholarly works in Latin and courtly ones in the vernacular.
PICCOLOMINI Francesco
ZEFFI Giovan Francesco [Retorica ad Alessandro]
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 rhetoric, much more suitable for an orator than the difficult text of Aristotlle's main Rhetoric.
ZEFFI Giovan Francesco
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 based on two points: a radical critic towards Aristotle and Aristotelianism by a cultural point of view as well as a strong defence of the employment of vernacular languages in scientific and philosophical disciplines
AGGIUNTI Niccolò
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PALTRONI Francesco Paraphrase di Agostino Nifo
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 Latin paraphrase of the Ethics by Agostino Nifo, but no work of this kind is known among Nifo's published and unpublished texts. The translator is all the more obscure.
PALTRONI Francesco
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COLOMBELLA Antonio O.S.A. Ethica d'Aristotile
Antonio Colombella, member of the Augustinian order, dedicates this translation of the Nicomachean Ethics - apparently based on the Latin text by Robert Grosseteste - to the young nobleman and merchant Pancrazio Giustiniani. The work includes an outstanding paratext (foreword and afterword) in which the translator approaches in a most interesting and critical way issues of translation discussing the opposition verbum de verbo / ad sensum as well as the contribution of the commentary tradition to understand those passages of the text which seem to be irremediably obscure.
COLOMBELLA Antonio O.S.A.
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ALBERGATI Fabio De gli studi d'un principe
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.
ALBERGATI Fabio
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Lettione recitata in Roma nell'Academia degli Humoristi
ALEANDRO Girolamo Lettione recitata in Roma nell'Academia degli Humoristi
The lecture, given at the Accademia degli Umoristi in Rome in 1605, deals with a section of Aristotle's Poetics on the opportunity of employing verse (and not prose) in epic poetry.
ALEANDRO Girolamo
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ANCINA Giovenale Sopra il 2° libro della Metafisica
The work is a partial commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics: the author, Giovenale Ancina, approaches here passages from books 2, 7 and 12. Some of the annotations are in Latin. This is one of the rare cases of vernacular works on metaphysics.
ANCINA Giovenale
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For an overview on Nicolò Anglico's compendium of the Ethics, cf. Marchesi 1904.
ANGLICO Nicolò
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The name of the translator appears in ms. Chig. M.VIII.162, f. 83v. Niccolò Anglico is not mentioned in the Paduan ms., which is incomplete both at the beginning and at the end. Grion 1868 (who gave an edition of the text), did not know the Vatican ms. A comparison between the Vatican ms. and the Paduan one with regard to the incipit and explicit of book 2 (the only completely extant in the Paduan ms.) confirms the identity of the translation.
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Rettorica e Poetica d'Aristotile tradotte e spiegate
ARRIGHETTI Filippo Rettorica e Poetica d'Aristotile tradotte e spiegate
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 different sections: 1. Arrighetti's translation of Aristotle's Rhetoric, book I, followed by the same author's esposizione; 2. a summary of Aristotle's Rhetoric; 3. Arrighetti's 56 lectures on Rhetoric, book I; 4. Proloqui nella Rettorica (the same text in ms. II.I.20); 5. Proloqui nella Poetica (= complete version of the Ragionamento della poesia in ms. II.I.20). All these materials are related to the Accademia degli Svegliati of Pisa: the academy was founded in 1588 by some members of the Accademia degli Ardenti and merged into the Accademia dei Lunatici in 1621 (cf. Maylender 1929: V, 282 sgg.; Salvini 1965).
ARRIGHETTI Filippo
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BALDI Camillo Introduzione alle virtù morali
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 willing but not performing the good in Book IX (the works seems to go through Book VIII on friendship only). [DL]
BALDI Camillo
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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 is very close in content and structure to the Introduzione alle virtù morali witnessed by ms. Bologna, BArch, 1685, of which it might be a reworking or an alternative version.
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Ragionamenti sopra la Politica d'Aristotile
BALDI Camillo Ragionamenti sopra la Politica d'Aristotile
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 himself. Each book is divided into chapters with specific titles.
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This is a vernacular translation of Aristotle's Problemata, XIX, On harmony. As we know from other works by Bartoli, he was very interested in Greek theories of music and musical harmony.
BARTOLI Giorgio
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Considerazioni intorno all'allegoria a Bellisario Bulgarini
BELTRAMI Fabrizio Considerazioni intorno all'allegoria a Bellisario Bulgarini
Beltrami's notes to Bulgarini discuss the notion of allegory referring to several sources. The main frame of Beltrami's account is Aristotelian: as stated in the preface letter, he is following the division of Aristotle's text (Poetics) below Maggi and Piccolomini's editions. The main argument presented by the author concerns Aristotle's choice not to deal with allegory in the Poetics. The text deserves a broader analysis, since it focuses on a quite controversial topic within the late Renaissance literary debates.
BELTRAMI Fabrizio
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BOTTRIGARI Ercole Dell'oggetto dell'udito
Ercole Bottrigari's translation of Aristotle's On Things Heard, dated 1606, is followed by the translation of an other Aristotelian short treatise (On Breath). The two works are part of the same translation project and witness the translator's interest in scientific issues.
BOTTRIGARI Ercole
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Ercole Bottrigari's translation of Aristotle's On Breath, dated 1606, follows the translation of an other Aristotelian short treatise (On Things Heard). The two works are part of the same translation project and witness the translator's interest in scientific issues.
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