Compendio dell'arte di pensare ossia logica
Anonymous Compendio dell'arte di pensare ossia logica
Anonymous
Eugenio Refini
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Discorso morale sopra la virtù della giustizia
Anonymous Discorso morale sopra la virtù della giustizia
The anonymous discorso on justice is basically based on Aristotle, though the text refers to other philosophers such as Plato; an interesting reference to Donato Acciaiuoli as an interpreter of Aristotle is made (f. 116r).
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Anonymous Discorso che la Rettorica sia arte
The Discorso (which is divided into two different discorsi) draws from several sources: though the main frame of the work is platonic, there is a section entirely devoted to Aristotle's teachings in the field of rhetoric (ff. 253v-256r).
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Discorso sopra il libro secondo della Rettorica d'Aristotele
Anonymous Discorso sopra il libro secondo della Rettorica d'Aristotele
The anonymous Discorso focuses on Aristotle's Rhetoric, book 2, and more specifically deals with the so-called movimento degli affetti. Other Aristotelian works such as the treatise On the Soul are mentioned.
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The complete title of the anonymous work is Discorso ove si pruova che per questa parola pedia overo peritia che usa Aristotile nel principio del primo libro de parti d'animali non si possa intender altro che la loica particolare come dice Averroè. The author quotes relevant passages from Theodorus Gaza's Latin translation of Aristotle's De partibus animalium. The Discorso aims at showing how the right meaning of the term pedìa — which was translated by Gaza into peritia — is Logic conceived as a preliminary tool for accessing the study of any philosophical field.
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Accademia degli Alterati Discorso sulle arti del poeta
The lecture — related to the Accademia degli Alterati as well as the other pieces in the miscellaneous ms. Ricc. 2435 — deals with a defence of Dante's Commedia as a poema eroico: the author aims at demonstrating that the poem perfectly fits in with the aristotelian notions of epic poetry.
Accademia degli Alterati
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The treatise focuses on virtues from a christian perspective. It is nevertheless largely indebted to the Aristotelian treatment of virtues in the Ethics.
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Introduttione alla morale e trattato del parlar lodevolmente
Anonymous Introduttione alla morale e trattato del parlar lodevolmente
The two treatises form a sort of compendium of ethics and rhetoric slavishly based on Aristotle's works.
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Anonymous Lezione sopra le qualità peripatetiche
This is an anonymous academic lecture on the definition of three kinds of being in aristotelian terms bound with very heterogeneous materials.
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Anonymous Logica distinta e spiecata per tavole
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 grandemente la memoria e'l giudizio, scuoprono le relazioni d'una cosa all'altra, mettono come avanti gli occhi la bellezza delle scienze, e producono un'evidente cognizione della verità per la divisione delle cose e delle proposizioni. Impercioche possiamo cavare grand'utilità dalla divisione delle cose quando le lor parti dipendono l'una dall'altra e si dispongono con ordine perché dichiarano apertamente il numero delle cose, il lor ordine, la ragione di quell'ordine, la definizione convenienza e differenza. La verità di queste proposizioni che tendono alla perfezione dell'intelletto si dimostra con la divisione de' suoi habiti. etc.'.
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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.
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[Notes on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, book 2]
Anonymous [Notes on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, book 2]
The short notes by an anonymous scholar deal with a passage from Aristotle's Ethics, book 2, but refer to other passages as well.
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Anonymous Orazione delle varie spezie di poesia
The anonymous academic oration is mainly based on Aristotle's Poetics (with precise references to the text) and Horace's Art of Poetry.
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SOMMARI Francesco Orazione in lode della poesia
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 Aristotelian sources (not only Poetics and Rhetoric, but On the soul as well). The two extant copies are bound within miscellaneous manuscripts which contain several works by Francesco Verino referring to Cavalcanti's Donna me prega, Verino's Latin Epilogus X librorum Aristotelis de moribus and works by other Florentine scholars (some of them are vernacular translations).
SOMMARI Francesco
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Anonymous Quattro trattati della filosofia morale
The long treatise Della filosofia morale is divided into four sections: 1. Della filosofia morale; 2. Della felicità ; 3. Della virtù in genere; 4. Della virtù morale. The work is largely indebted to Aristotle's moral works, but other Aristotelian sources are mentioned as well. References to other philosophers such as Plato and Thomas Aquinas are not infrequent.
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The treatise, divided into 6 books, does not refer explicitly to its sources, but plainly reveals an Aristotelian frame.
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Trattato della politica o ragione di stato
Anonymous Trattato della politica o ragione di stato
The anonymous treatise, which might date from the second half of the 17th c., fits in with the wide tradition of works dealing with the notions of politics and ragion di stato. The text opens with a sort of preamble which explicitly draws from Aristotelian definitions of politics from both the Ethics and the Politics. The last section of the treatise is a collection of short sentences on political matters.
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VERONESE Guarino Vita di Aristotile [anonymous transl.]
The anonymous vernacular translation of Guarino Verone's Life of Aristotle is part of a wider collection of biographies (ms. Vatican City, BAV, Chig. M.VII.157) incl. some of Plutarch's Lifes as well as the biographies of Evagoras by Isochrates and Plato by the same Guarino Veronese.
VERONESE Guarino
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PICCOLOMINI Francesco Instituzione del principe
PICCOLOMINI Francesco
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MOLETO Giuseppe Dialogo intorno alla Meccanica
Giuseppe Moleto's Dialogo intorno alla meccanica, which remained unpublished until very recent times (cf. modern edition by W.R. Laird, 2000), may be considered a reworking in the vernacular of the author's scholarly discussions over the Mechanics witnessed by manuscript notes from his lectures preserved at the Ambrosiana Library in Milan (S 100 sup.).
MOLETO Giuseppe
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La Rettorica d'Aristotile tradotta con la sposizione di Rocco Catanio
BRUCIOLI Antonio La Rettorica d'Aristotile tradotta con la sposizione di Rocco Catanio
The work is mentioned by Haym (Biblioteca Italiana: II, 482) and Mazzucchelli (Scrittori d'Italia: II, 4, 2151) as printed in Venice by Curzio Troiano Navò in 1545, but no copies seem to be extant.
BRUCIOLI Antonio
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VIERI Francesco de Breve ragionamento dell'anima umana
The Breve ragionamento follows in the ms. Florence, BNC, Magl.XII.12 a Latin work by the same author on a similar subject (Epilogus doctrinam Aristotelis de anima quam brevissime complectens, ff. 4r-25v), dedicated - as the Italian one - to the duke Francesco I. The Ragionamento is an outstanding example of Francesco de Vieri's approach to the concordance of Plato, Aristotle and Christian doctrine. NB: research in progress on Francesco de Vieri's Breve ragionamento by members of the project.
VIERI Francesco de
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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 indebted to the Aristotelian tradition. Aristotle's works are then often taken into account and offer a fundamental frame - together with Plato and the Church Fathers - for Vieri's illustration of Cavalcanti's poem.
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VIZZANI Pompeo Compendio della scienza dei costumi
Pompeo Vizzani's Compendio della scienza dei costumi, dedicated to the author's nephew, Camillo, is in essence a summary paraphrase of Books III—V and again VIII of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, with attention centred on the various virtues. The work includes a table/summary of moral virtues.
VIZZANI Pompeo
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Pompeo Vizzani's Delle meteore, written in 1587, is a brief compendium of meteorology. As it is usually the case with Vizzani's works, sources are not explicitly mentioned, but the Aristotelian frame of the text is rather evident. The work is followed by an even shorter text (De i corpi naturali, 1597), which deals - though in general terms - with meteorology as well.
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