Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century

This volume is
based on an international colloquium held at the Warburg Institute, London,
on 21-2 June 2013, and entitled `Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance:
Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular'. It situates and explores vernacular
Aristotelianism in a broad chronological context, with a geographical focus on
Italy. The disciplines covered include political thought, ethics, poetics,
rhetoric, logic, natural philosophy, cosmology, meteorology and metaphysics;
and among the genres considered are translations, popularizing commentaries, dialogues
and works targeted at women. The wide-ranging and rich material presented in
the volume is intended to stimulate scholars to develop this promising area of
research still further.





Table of Contents:











Preface (pp. ix-x)





Introduction (pp. 1-5)

Luca
Bianchi, Simon Gilson and Jill Kraye





Giles of Rome's De regimine principum and the Vernacular Translations: The
Reception of the Aristotelian Tradition and the Problem of Courtesy (pp. 7-29)

Fiammetta Papi





Uses of Latin Sources in Renaissance
Vernacularization of Aristotle: The Case of Galeazzo Florimonte, Francesco
Venier and Francesco Pona (pp. 31-55)

Luca Bianchi





Alessandro Piccolomini's Mission: Philosophy
for Men and Women in their Mother Tongue (pp. 57-73)

Letizia
Panizza





Francesco Robortello on Popularizing Knowledge
(75-92)

Marco
Sgarbi





Aristotelian Commentaries and the Dialogue Form
in Cinquecento Italy (pp. 93-107)

Eugenio
Refini





Aristotle's Politics
in the Dialogi della morale filosofia
of Antonio Brucioli (pp. 109-122)

Grace
Allen





`The best works of Aristotle': Antonio Brucioli
as a Translator of Natural Philosophy (pp. 123-138)

Eva
Del Soldato





Vernacular Meteorology and the Antiquity of the
Earth in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (pp. 139-159)

Ivano
Dal Prete





Vernacularizing Meteorology: Benedetto Varchi's
Comento sopra il primo libro delle Meteore
d'Aristotile (pp. 161-181)

Simon
Gilson





Bartolomeo Beverini (1629-1686) e una versione
inedita della Metafisica di
Aristotele (pp. 183-208)

Corinna
Onelli





Index of Manuscripts and Incunables (p. 209)



Index
of Names (pp. 210-216)