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)