Ragionamento che non è felicità in questo mondo
subject: VIZZANI Pompeo Ragionamento che non è felicità in questo mondo
description: The first part of Pompeo Vizzani's Ragionamento che non è felicità in questo mondo is all based (although not explicitly) on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book I; Vizzani then veers off from it toward the discussion of heavenly happiness about two thirds of the way through.
creator: VIZZANI Pompeo
date: 1593
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose

Discorso sopra la felicità humana
subject: VIERI Francesco de Discorso sopra la felicità humana
description: The Discorso sopra la felicità humana is a short treatise in the form of a lecture mainly dealing with the notion of human happiness and the distinction between contemplative and active life. The main source is Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, often referred to, but Francesco de Vieri mentions other sources as well (Plato and several Latin authors).
creator: VIERI Francesco de
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose

La morale filosofia raccolta con brevità e facilità et con ordine
subject: VIERI Francesco de La morale filosofia raccolta con brevità e facilità et con ordine
description: Francesco de Vieri's La morale filosofia is a sort of compendium of moral philosophy much indebted to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, though not exclusively based on Aristotelian materials. Ms. Florence, BNC, Magl. XXI.147 is a rough copy, rich in marginal annotations, additions and corrections.
creator: VIERI Francesco de
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose

Il primo libro delle posteriori d'Aristotile ridotto alla lingua volgare
subject: VIANI DE MALATESTI Fulvio da Montefiore Il primo libro delle posteriori d'Aristotile ridotto alla lingua volgare
description: Fulvio Malatesta's translation of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, book 1, is dedicated to the Duke of Urbino, Guidobaldo II, and witnesses the importance of Urbino as a centre for the vernacular diffusion of Aristotelian works (cf. the later translations of Aristotle's natural works by Tito Corneo and others). This is the very first Italian version of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics.
creator: VIANI DE MALATESTI Fulvio da Montefiore
date: 1567
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose

I quattro libri meteorologici di Aristotele tradotti ed esposti
subject: VENTURELLI Vittorio I quattro libri meteorologici di Aristotele tradotti ed esposti
description: 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 to Aristotle's scientific and philosophical works. Venturelli is the author of a wider project of translations and commentaries which includes the later version of Parva Naturalia (mss. Vatican City, BAV, Urb. Lat. 1337 and 1338: cf. relevant records in the databse). The introduction given here refers to the whole enterprise. Since the translation of Parva Naturalia is dated 1617, it is possible to date the Meteorology around the very same year.
creator: VENTURELLI Vittorio
date: 1617
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose

I parvi naturali d'Aristotile tradotti ed esposti
subject: VENTURELLI Vittorio I parvi naturali d'Aristotile tradotti ed esposti
description: 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 Della Rovere. Whereas the dedicatory epistle of Venturelli's Quattro libri meteorologici is not dated, the Parvi naturali open with an epistle to the duke dated 1617. The work is introduced by an accessus which focuses on the content of the Parva Naturalia, referring to the previous work on Meteorology for details about Aristotle himself (cf. relevant record: Vatican City, BAV, Urb. Lat. 1335). Venturelli's translation of the Parva Naturalia is witnessed by mss. Urb. Lat. 1338 (Del senso e del sensibile, Della memoria e della reminiscienza, Del sonno e della vegghia, De sogni) and 1337 (Dello indovinare per mezzo de sogni, Della longhezza e della brevità della vita, Della gioventù e della vecchiezza, Della respiratione, Della vita e della morte, Della sanità e dell'infermità ).
creator: VENTURELLI Vittorio
date: 1617
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose

Espositione di quella opinione di Platone alla quale contradice Aristotile
subject: VALDAGNI Giuseppe Espositione di quella opinione di Platone alla quale contradice Aristotile
description: Giuseppe Valdagni comments, on behest of Count Alfonso Caprioli (who was a member of the Accademia degli Occulti in Brescia), on a controversial passage from Plato's Republic as well as on Aristotle's critique of the same passage in Politics, book 5.
creator: VALDAGNI Giuseppe
date: 1570
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose

Sopra la Periermeneia
subject: AQUINAS Thomas Sopra la Periermeneia
description: The anonymous translation of Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's logical works (On interpretation and Posterior Analytics) is part of a wider project which includes vernacular translations of other Aristotelian commentaries by Thomas (On the Heavens and On generation and corruption). The work, witnessed by a single manuscript (Milan, BAmbr, A 178 suss.), might be assigned to someone called Giuseppe Gramaglia (cf. a note by a different hand at f. 1r: 'Accomodato à M[aestro] Josepho Gramaglia a Monte[.]'. NB in translating the commentary on Aristotle's On Interpretation the translator acknowledges Cardinal Caietanus's authorship of the second part of the commentary itself, completed after Thomas's death.
creator: AQUINAS Thomas
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose

Le Posteriore con l'esplicatione di San Tomaso
subject: AQUINAS Thomas Le Posteriore con l'esplicatione di San Tomaso
description: The anonymous translation of Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's logical works (On interpretation and Posterior Analytics) is part of a wider project which includes vernacular translations of other Aristotelian commentaries by Thomas (On the Heavens and On generation and corruption). The work, witnessed by a single manuscript (Milan, BAmbr, A 178 suss.), might be assigned to someone called Giuseppe Gramaglia (cf. a note by a different hand at f. 1r: 'Accomodato à M[aestro] Josepho Gramaglia a Monte[.]'.
creator: AQUINAS Thomas
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose

Esplicatione sopra il Cielo et mondo secondo Santo Tomasso
subject: AQUINAS Thomas Esplicatione sopra il Cielo et mondo secondo Santo Tomasso
description: The anonymous translation of Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens and On generation and corruption is part of a wider project which includes vernacular translations of other Aristotelian commentaries by Thomas (On interpretation and Posterior Analytics). The work, witnessed by a single manuscript (Milan, BAmbr, A 178 suss.), might be assigned to someone called Giuseppe Gramaglia (cf. a note by a different hand at f. 1r: 'Accomodato à M[aestro] Josepho Gramaglia a Monte[.]'.
creator: AQUINAS Thomas
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose

Esplicatione sopra li doi libri della generatione et corruptione
subject: AQUINAS Thomas Esplicatione sopra li doi libri della generatione et corruptione
description: The anonymous translation of Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens and On generation and corruption is part of a wider project which includes vernacular translations of other Aristotelian commentaries by Thomas (On interpretation and Posterior Analytics). The work, witnessed by a single manuscript (Milan, BAmbr, A 178 suss.), might be assigned to someone called Giuseppe Gramaglia (cf. a note by a different hand at f. 1r: 'Accomodato à M[aestro] Josepho Gramaglia a Monte[.]'.
creator: AQUINAS Thomas
contributor: Eugenio Refini
format: Manuscript copies
type: Prose