Trattato degli elementi
Title
Trattato degli elementi
Description
Breventano's treatise on the natural elements opens with an interesting preface to the readers in which the author explains the importance of disseminating scientific culture not only through translations and commentaries, but through compendia as well (Plato and Aristotle are mentioned as the main authorities of the past). The work, at least in the very first general remarks, draws on Aristotle's natural philosophy (e.g. the reference to De coelo et mundo, book 3, at f. 7v), but in the following sections it refers to several other sources such as Pliny the Elder and some classical poets (e.g. the references to Ovid - with passages translated into vernacular). The compiler pays attention to recent sources andd description of natural phenomena as well (e.g. the examples recorded at the end of the treatise).
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Date
1571
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Type
Prose
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Spatial Coverage
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Multiple work
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Branch of philosophy
Record last updated
07/03/2013
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1571—BREVENTANO Stefano—Trattato degli elementi
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Citation
Eugenio Refini, ‘Trattato degli elementi’, in Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARIDB)
<https://vari.warwick.ac.uk/items/show/5000> [accessed 6 October 2024]
<https://vari.warwick.ac.uk/items/show/5000> [accessed 6 October 2024]