De immortalitate anime
Aristotelian work
Date: 1430
Work ref: 1
Multiple work: No
Type: Prose
Dedicatee
MARCANOVA GiovanniExtant versions
Manuscript copies Printed editionsRelated to Aristotle's
On the SoulDescription
The treatise on the soul by the dominican Jacopo Campora from Genova, written in Bruges in 1432 and dedicated to the Venetian merchant Giovanni Marcanova, who put Campora up on the occasion of his stay in London, had a wide circulation both in mss. and printed editions. The work is conceived as a compendium in the form of a dialogue between the author and the dedicatee, mainly addressed to vernacular readers not acquainted with erudite and theological contents. Aristotle's On the Soul is a crucial source in Campora's work, but the author draws on other sources as well (e.g. Church Fathers).Printed Editions
Title
De immortalitate anime in modum… Dialogo de la inmortalità de… De immortalitate anime in modum… Loica vulgare e philosofia morale… De immortalitate anime in modum… Loica volgare Loica vulgare e philosofia morale… Tractato de l'origine et… Loica vulgare composta e traduta…Printer
LIGNAMINE Johannes Philippus de LONGO Giovanni Leonardo SALOMONI Ottaviano SCINZENZELER Ulrich ZAROTUS Antonius ANIMA MIA Guilelmus Tridinensis DE BONELLIS Manfredus de Monteferrato FARFENGUS Baptista SCINZENZELER UlrichYear
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Manuscript copies
Bergamo, BCivica, Delta II 32 [MA 84] Bergamo, BCivica, Delta V 2 [MA 283] Florence, BNC, Magl. XXXV.144 Florence, BRicc, 2104 Venice, Museo Correr, Correr 315 Amherst, Amherst College Library, B.3.5 Amsterdam, BUniversiteit, III.F.34 London, BL, Add. 10691 London, BL, Add. 22325 Paris, BNF, Ital. 907 Paris, BNF, Ital. 910 Venice, BNM, It. II.137 Venice, BNM, Lat. XIV.295 [4348] Padua, BSem, 162 Bologna, BU, It. 157 Milan, BAmbr, Y 59 sup.Bibliography
Quetif-Echard 1719-1721: I, 856; Carlo de' Rosmini, Vita di Francesco Filelfo da Tolentino (Milan: Luigi Mussi, 1808), II, 126 [explains that the dialogue was once attributed to Filelfo; refers to a ms. copy of the text preserved in Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, but he does not give the shelfmark]; Marsand 1835: 222, n°8286/213 [he says that the text is a vernacular translation of the original Latin work by Jacopo Campora listed by Brunet].Citation
Eugenio Refini, ‘De immortalitate anime’, in Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARIDB)
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