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).

Publisher

Date

1571

Contributor

Type

Prose

Identifier

Spatial Coverage

Genre

Multiple work

No

Author Life

1502-1577

Branch of philosophy

Record last updated

07/03/2013

PrintedEdYear

1571—BREVENTANO Stefano—Trattato degli elementi

Collection

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]