Chrysostomus Javelli

Tommaso De Robertis (University of Pennsylvania) is a scholar of Renaissance philosophy, with a special interest in the reception of Aristotle's oeuvre. Together with Valérie Cordonier, he has recently authored a book-length study with edition and English translation of Javelli's epitome of Aristotle's Liber de bona fortuna (Brill, 2021).

Luca Burzelli (KU Leuven) is a scholar of medieval and Renaissance philosophy. He works on the history of Aristotelianism, focusing in particular on the reception of Aristotle's natural philosophy from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. He published extensively on Pietro Pomponazzi's theory of the elements. Recently, he contributed two monographs on the cardinal and philosopher Gasparo Contarini (Scritti teologici, Torino 2022; La natura e Aristotele insegnano. Studio sulla filosofia di Gasparo Contarini, Venezia 2022

Preface.- PART I. CONTEXT.- Chapter 1 Michael Tavuzzi, Chrysostomus Javelli OP (ca. 1470-1540): A Biographical Introduction.- Chapter 2 Annalisa Cappiello, Javelli, Pomponazzi, and the immortality of the soul: From the 'Solutiones' (1519) to the 'Tractatus de indeficientia' (1536).- PART II. ARISTOTELIAN COMMENTARIES.- Chapter 3 Pietro B. Rossi, Javelli's Compendium Logicae and the exegesis of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics in the Renaissance.- Chapter 4 Luca Burzelli, Chrysostomus Javelli on causal efficiency and eternal movement: physical arguments.- Chapter 5 Michael Engel, Harvaeus Natalis and Chrysostomus Javelli on Averroes' Account of Creation: A Thomist controversy concerning metaphysics.- Chapter 6 Leonardo Graciotti, Reading Aristotle's De sensu et sensato': Javelli's discussion of extramission and intromission theories of vision.- Chapter 7 Claus A. Andersen, Javelli and the reception of the Scotist system of distinctions in Renaissance Thomissm.- PART III. PLATONIC COMMENTARIES.- Chapter 8 Maude Vanhaelen, Interpreting Plato through Plato: Javelli's commentaries on Plato's moral and political philosophy.- Chapter 9 Eva Del Soldato, Using Ficino: Chrysostomus Javelli on Love and amor sui.- PART IV. CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY.- Chapter 10 Tommaso De Robertis, Neither Plato nor Aristotle: Javelli's project of Christian philosophy.- Chapter 11. Tomás Machula, Javelli's Christian Moral Philosophy.- Chapter 12 Rita Ramberti, Javelli on predestination. A Thomistic view on ordo and dispositio in his last works.