The work is conceived as a series of tree diagrams ('alberi') and short paragraphs which aim at summarising the main rational faculties (grammar, rhetoric, topics, logic, poetics, history). Aristotle is one of the main sources employed by Toscanella,…
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…
Paper; ff. II, p. 822, ff. [5], II; mm. 200_268. Date at f. IIr: '3 Nov. 1613', and f. [1]r: '8 Ag. 1614'. Titles on spine: 'Parafrase del con. / Pomponio Torelli so / pra l'Etica'; 'Parafrase del conte Pomponio Torelli sopra l'Etica d'Arist. m.s.'.