Orazione

Aristotelian work
Date:

Work ref: 102
Multiple work: No
Type: Prose

Author

AGGIUNTI Niccolò
(1600-1635)

Dedicatee

MEDICI Ferdinando II

Extant versions

Manuscript copies

Genre

Lecture

Related to Aristotle's

Branch of Philosophy

Natural Philosophy
—Astronomy

Description

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 based on two points: a radical critic towards Aristotle and Aristotelianism by a cultural point of view as well as a strong defence of the employment of vernacular languages in scientific and philosophical disciplines

Manuscript copies

Florence, BNC, Pal. 1137

Bibliography

Gentile, Codici Palatini: II, 282-283; Iter, I, 144b; V, 583a.



Original Record Author
Eugenio Refini
Record Last Updated On
07/03/2013
Record Last Updated By

Citation
Eugenio Refini, ‘Orazione’, in Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARIDB)
  <https://vari.warwick.ac.uk/items/show/4996> [accessed 20 April 2024]