Compendio della scienza dei costumi

Title

Compendio della scienza dei costumi

Description

Pompeo Vizzani's Compendio della scienza dei costumi, dedicated to the author's nephew, Camillo, is in essence a summary paraphrase of Books III—V and again VIII of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, with attention centred on the various virtues. The work includes a table/summary of moral virtues.

Creator

VIZZANI Pompeo

Date

1586

Contributor

Eugenio Refini

Type

Prose

Identifier

225

Is Referenced By

IMBI 53: 179-180.

Audience

VIZZANI Camillo

Genre

Compendium

Multiple work

No

Author Life

1540-1607

Branch of philosophy

Moral Philosophy
—Ethics

Record last updated

07/03/2013

Collection

Aristotelian works

Citation

Eugenio Refini, ‘Compendio della scienza dei costumi’, in Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy Database (VARIDB)
  <https://vari.warwick.ac.uk/items/show/5119> [accessed 9 May 2025]