Parchment; ff. [II], 87; mm. 323_230. Text in two columns; lines per column: 40. Layout: mm. 170_221. Illuminated initials (f. 1r vignette representing Aristotle and vegetal decorations); rubrics in red, signs of paragraphs in red and light blue.
Parchment; ff. [II], 87; mm. 323_230. Text in two columns; lines per column: 40. Layout: mm. 170_221. Illuminated initials (f. 1r vignette representing Aristotle and vegetal decorations); rubrics in red, signs of paragraphs in red and light blue.
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.
Paper; misc., comp.; variable measures; ff. [I], 609, [I]. Title on f. 2r: 'Opuscula propria manu scripta vel subscripta a venerabili Dei servo Iuvenale Ancina episc. Salutiar'. Autograph materials by Giovenale Ancina. Relevant unit: mm. 210_310.
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.
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.
As Albergati states in the preface letter to cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, he had been asked to write the work by cardinal Francisco de Toledo Herrera in order to reprobate Jean Bodin's political theories by means of a strong defence of Aristotle's.…
Fabio Albergati's Le morali is a treatise on virtues very based on Aristotle's Nicoamachean Ethics. The work was first published in 1627, after Fabio's death (1606), by the author's son, Antonio, bishop of Bisceglie, who dedicated the book to pope…
4°. [I tomo] +-++4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Yyy4; [II tomo] +4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Nnn4, a4-k4. ff. [8], pp. 542, f. [1]; ff. [4], pp. 472, ff. [40]. Text in Roman, titles of paragraphs in Italics.
Paper; ff. [II], 623, [II]; mm. 200_260. Contemporary binding. The last page not numbered as a date: '16 ott. 1609'. An different title, L'Ethica di Fabio Albergati, though erased, is still readable on the spine of the book. The title Del sommo bene.…
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…