De la institutione di tutta la vita de l'homo nato nobile e in città libera
Aristotelian work
Date: 1542
Work ref: 22
Multiple work: No
Type: Prose
Dedicatee
FORTEGUERRI LaudomiaExtant versions
Printed editionsDescription
The work is a treatise of moral philosophy conceived as a pedagogical tool since it follows the education and training of a noble man (gentiluomo) from childhood to first maturity. It is a sort of compendium/paraphrase of Aristotle's Ethics, but book 10 is left aside in order to make space for a chapter on marriage and economics (the latter based on Aristotle's Economics). The author promises a section on politics which was never written (though it is mentioned in the title).Printed Editions
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Citation
Eugenio Refini, ‘De la institutione di tutta la vita de l'homo nato nobile e in città libera’, in Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARIDB)
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