Published in Venice in 1493, the Propositiones ex omnibus Aristotelis libris philosophie excerpte... more Published in Venice in 1493, the Propositiones ex omnibus Aristotelis libris philosophie excerpte are an original but neglected collection of Aristotelian sayings. Authored by the Dominican friar Teofilo Ferrari (and completed by his brother Benedetto da Soncino), this collection is part of a larger publishing project inspired by Domenico Grimani and Antonio Pizzamano, two outstanding Venice patricians who supported the renewal of Aristotelianism and of Thomism, but were also interested in the growth of humanism. Breaking with the medieval tradition of florilegia, which gave a condensed and often deformed version of their sources, Ferrari relied systematically on Aristotle\u2019s works and Aquinas\u2019 commentaries, but he also devoted attention to textual and philological issues, used a few Greek terms and took advantage, however critically, of new Latin translations of humanists such as Leonardo Bruni, Theodore Gaza, George of Trebizond and Antonio Beccaria. The Propositiones pro...
in: Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century, edited by... more in: Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century, edited by L. Bianchi, S. Gilson and J. Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London 2016, pp. 31-55
A Conference on the Images of Nature in the Middle Ages. Scopo del Convegno è evidenziare con un ... more A Conference on the Images of Nature in the Middle Ages. Scopo del Convegno è evidenziare con un approccio multidisciplinare e interdisciplinare come le rappresentazioni della natura si trasformino, nei contenuti e nei modi, fra il V e il XV secolo. Accanto alle rappresentazioni concettuali, proprie delle discipline teoretiche, sarà dato ampio spazio alle rappresentazioni figurative, letterarie e musicali. Non solo concezioni e teorie della natura, dunque, ma anche immagini, simboli, suoni che nel Medioevo riproducono, evocano o fingono mondi naturali. Rispetto agli studi già esistenti sull’argomento, il Convegno si propone di suggerire letture innovative che possano mettere in discussione i paradigmi storico-critici vigenti e le nozioni date per acquisite, contribuendo così a reimpostare l’intera questione in una nuova ottica, capace di superare le tradizionali frontiere disciplinari.
In 1633 pope Urban VIII received from the Jesuit theologian Melchior Inchofer the Tractatus sylle... more In 1633 pope Urban VIII received from the Jesuit theologian Melchior Inchofer the Tractatus syllepticus, expressly conceived as a justification of the sentence against Galileo. Inchofer referred to the bull Apostolici regiminis, published in 1513 by pope Leo X, in order to argue that "truth does not contradict truth", and therefore Copernicans were not allowed to use the "artful distinction" between what can be said "according to philosophy" and what can be said "according to theology". It is well known that the aforementioned distinction had been widely used by Aristotelian philosophers since the mid-thirteenth century; and for a long time historians presented it as the hallmark of the so-called 'Averroism', which supposedly accepted a 'double-truth theory' claiming that a doctrine could be true for philosophy while being false for theology (or vice versa). This paper shows that the roots of the principle of the unity of truth, sanctioned by Leo X in his attack against the masters of philosophy who supported 'Alexandrist' and 'Averroist' interpretations of Aristotle's psychology, can be found not only in Aristotle's but also in Aver roes' works; that Averroes gave it one of its clearest formulations; and that Averroes had no significant impact on the understanding of the relationship between philosophy and religious beliefs articulated by the thirteenth-century Parisian Arts masters generally labelled as 'Latin Averroists'. Rebuked in 1277 by bishop Tempier for holding that there are "two contrary truths", these masters did indeed try to avoid the conflict between Aristotle's philosophy and the teachings of the Christian faith by using Aristotelian logical tools. However one evaluates their strategy, it seems clear that it was within Latin Christian thought that the different conceptions of the dialectic between 'reason' and 'faith' generated the phantom of 'double truth'.
Review article of: Eva Del Soldato, Early Modern Aristotle. On the Making and Unmaking of Authori... more Review article of: Eva Del Soldato, Early Modern Aristotle. On the Making and Unmaking of Authority, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2020.
Leandro Pizzoni and Galileo’s scientific reputation. The Letter to Costanzo Salvi published in 16... more Leandro Pizzoni and Galileo’s scientific reputation. The Letter to Costanzo Salvi published in 1625 by Leandro Pizzoni has been totally neglected in Galilean scholarship because of serious misunderstandings about its authorship, nature and scope. This essay calls attention to this text and shows that – however inept and heavily reliant on previous sources, such as Orazio Grassi and Francesco Sizzi – Pizzoni’s criticism of Salvi is historically interesting because it provides evidence of the reaction of a conservative Aristotelian against several aspects of Galileo’s teachings. Not content with criticizing Salvi’s Atomism, Pizzoni openly attacks Galileo’s scientific reputation, describes his way of philosophizing as “extraordinary”, and refutes his astronomical discoveries, recalling that they had been badly received at the University of Padua. Moreover, Pizzoni praises Aristotle in terms that are strikingly similar to those employed by Galileo when penning a satirical portrait of dogmatic Aristotelians in his Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World.
Researches carried on in the last sixty years have enlightened the prominent place that Aristotel... more Researches carried on in the last sixty years have enlightened the prominent place that Aristotelianism still had throughout the 15th and the 16th centuries not only in university curricula and in the schools of the religious orders, but also in humanist milieus. The diffusion of Aristotle’s thought trough vernacular translations, compendia, paraphrases and commentaries has been instead largely neglected, so that not even a catalogue of them exists. Yet this is undoubtedly a major intellectual phenomenon, which should be recognized in order to better understand the impact of Aristotle on Renaissance philosophical culture and his success among a broad public. This article offers a survey of this phenomenon, shows that Italy played in it a outstanding role, and calls attention to the Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele published around 1565 by Lodovico Dolce: a rather mediocre compendium, which nevertheless provides good samples of how Italian “volgarizzamenti” might intermingle Aristo...
Archives D Histoire Doctrinale Et Litteraire Du Moyen Age, Dec 1, 2007
The study of Garsias’ Determinationes magistrales, a reply to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Apo... more The study of Garsias’ Determinationes magistrales, a reply to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Apologia, invites to challenge the largely accepted view that the Italian humanist was the victim of the ‘nominalists’ who supposedly dominated both the university of Paris and the Roman curia. As a matter of fact, Garsias, who played a prominent role during the trial of 1487, openly criticises Ockham, has a liking for the via communis, systematically draws from Thomas Aquinas’ works, and, in the section devoted to the classification of theological errors, plagiarizes the Summa de ecclesia of John of Torquemada, who was a sworn enemy of Ockham’s theology and ecclesiology.
Published in Venice in 1493, the Propositiones ex omnibus Aristotelis libris philosophie excerpte... more Published in Venice in 1493, the Propositiones ex omnibus Aristotelis libris philosophie excerpte are an original but neglected collection of Aristotelian sayings. Authored by the Dominican friar Teofilo Ferrari (and completed by his brother Benedetto da Soncino), this collection is part of a larger publishing project inspired by Domenico Grimani and Antonio Pizzamano, two outstanding Venice patricians who supported the renewal of Aristotelianism and of Thomism, but were also interested in the growth of humanism. Breaking with the medieval tradition of florilegia, which gave a condensed and often deformed version of their sources, Ferrari relied systematically on Aristotle\u2019s works and Aquinas\u2019 commentaries, but he also devoted attention to textual and philological issues, used a few Greek terms and took advantage, however critically, of new Latin translations of humanists such as Leonardo Bruni, Theodore Gaza, George of Trebizond and Antonio Beccaria. The Propositiones pro...
in: Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century, edited by... more in: Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century, edited by L. Bianchi, S. Gilson and J. Kraye, The Warburg Institute, London 2016, pp. 31-55
A Conference on the Images of Nature in the Middle Ages. Scopo del Convegno è evidenziare con un ... more A Conference on the Images of Nature in the Middle Ages. Scopo del Convegno è evidenziare con un approccio multidisciplinare e interdisciplinare come le rappresentazioni della natura si trasformino, nei contenuti e nei modi, fra il V e il XV secolo. Accanto alle rappresentazioni concettuali, proprie delle discipline teoretiche, sarà dato ampio spazio alle rappresentazioni figurative, letterarie e musicali. Non solo concezioni e teorie della natura, dunque, ma anche immagini, simboli, suoni che nel Medioevo riproducono, evocano o fingono mondi naturali. Rispetto agli studi già esistenti sull’argomento, il Convegno si propone di suggerire letture innovative che possano mettere in discussione i paradigmi storico-critici vigenti e le nozioni date per acquisite, contribuendo così a reimpostare l’intera questione in una nuova ottica, capace di superare le tradizionali frontiere disciplinari.
In 1633 pope Urban VIII received from the Jesuit theologian Melchior Inchofer the Tractatus sylle... more In 1633 pope Urban VIII received from the Jesuit theologian Melchior Inchofer the Tractatus syllepticus, expressly conceived as a justification of the sentence against Galileo. Inchofer referred to the bull Apostolici regiminis, published in 1513 by pope Leo X, in order to argue that "truth does not contradict truth", and therefore Copernicans were not allowed to use the "artful distinction" between what can be said "according to philosophy" and what can be said "according to theology". It is well known that the aforementioned distinction had been widely used by Aristotelian philosophers since the mid-thirteenth century; and for a long time historians presented it as the hallmark of the so-called 'Averroism', which supposedly accepted a 'double-truth theory' claiming that a doctrine could be true for philosophy while being false for theology (or vice versa). This paper shows that the roots of the principle of the unity of truth, sanctioned by Leo X in his attack against the masters of philosophy who supported 'Alexandrist' and 'Averroist' interpretations of Aristotle's psychology, can be found not only in Aristotle's but also in Aver roes' works; that Averroes gave it one of its clearest formulations; and that Averroes had no significant impact on the understanding of the relationship between philosophy and religious beliefs articulated by the thirteenth-century Parisian Arts masters generally labelled as 'Latin Averroists'. Rebuked in 1277 by bishop Tempier for holding that there are "two contrary truths", these masters did indeed try to avoid the conflict between Aristotle's philosophy and the teachings of the Christian faith by using Aristotelian logical tools. However one evaluates their strategy, it seems clear that it was within Latin Christian thought that the different conceptions of the dialectic between 'reason' and 'faith' generated the phantom of 'double truth'.
Review article of: Eva Del Soldato, Early Modern Aristotle. On the Making and Unmaking of Authori... more Review article of: Eva Del Soldato, Early Modern Aristotle. On the Making and Unmaking of Authority, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2020.
Leandro Pizzoni and Galileo’s scientific reputation. The Letter to Costanzo Salvi published in 16... more Leandro Pizzoni and Galileo’s scientific reputation. The Letter to Costanzo Salvi published in 1625 by Leandro Pizzoni has been totally neglected in Galilean scholarship because of serious misunderstandings about its authorship, nature and scope. This essay calls attention to this text and shows that – however inept and heavily reliant on previous sources, such as Orazio Grassi and Francesco Sizzi – Pizzoni’s criticism of Salvi is historically interesting because it provides evidence of the reaction of a conservative Aristotelian against several aspects of Galileo’s teachings. Not content with criticizing Salvi’s Atomism, Pizzoni openly attacks Galileo’s scientific reputation, describes his way of philosophizing as “extraordinary”, and refutes his astronomical discoveries, recalling that they had been badly received at the University of Padua. Moreover, Pizzoni praises Aristotle in terms that are strikingly similar to those employed by Galileo when penning a satirical portrait of dogmatic Aristotelians in his Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World.
Researches carried on in the last sixty years have enlightened the prominent place that Aristotel... more Researches carried on in the last sixty years have enlightened the prominent place that Aristotelianism still had throughout the 15th and the 16th centuries not only in university curricula and in the schools of the religious orders, but also in humanist milieus. The diffusion of Aristotle’s thought trough vernacular translations, compendia, paraphrases and commentaries has been instead largely neglected, so that not even a catalogue of them exists. Yet this is undoubtedly a major intellectual phenomenon, which should be recognized in order to better understand the impact of Aristotle on Renaissance philosophical culture and his success among a broad public. This article offers a survey of this phenomenon, shows that Italy played in it a outstanding role, and calls attention to the Somma della filosofia d’Aristotele published around 1565 by Lodovico Dolce: a rather mediocre compendium, which nevertheless provides good samples of how Italian “volgarizzamenti” might intermingle Aristo...
Archives D Histoire Doctrinale Et Litteraire Du Moyen Age, Dec 1, 2007
The study of Garsias’ Determinationes magistrales, a reply to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Apo... more The study of Garsias’ Determinationes magistrales, a reply to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Apologia, invites to challenge the largely accepted view that the Italian humanist was the victim of the ‘nominalists’ who supposedly dominated both the university of Paris and the Roman curia. As a matter of fact, Garsias, who played a prominent role during the trial of 1487, openly criticises Ockham, has a liking for the via communis, systematically draws from Thomas Aquinas’ works, and, in the section devoted to the classification of theological errors, plagiarizes the Summa de ecclesia of John of Torquemada, who was a sworn enemy of Ockham’s theology and ecclesiology.
Leandro Pizzoni and Galileo’s scientific reputation. The Letter to Costanzo Salvi published in 16... more Leandro Pizzoni and Galileo’s scientific reputation. The Letter to Costanzo Salvi published in 1625 by Leandro Pizzoni has been totally neglected in Galilean scholarship because of serious misunderstandings about its authorship, nature and scope. This essay calls attention to this text and shows that – however inept and heavily reliant on previous sources, such as Orazio Grassi and Francesco Sizzi – Pizzoni’s criticism of Salvi is historically interesting because it provides evidence of the reaction of a conservative Aristotelian against several aspects of Galileo’s teachings. Not content with criticizing Salvi’s Atomism, Pizzoni openly attacks Galileo’s scientific reputation, describes his way of philosophizing as “extraordinary”, and refutes his astronomical discoveries, recalling that they had been badly received at the University of Padua. Moreover, Pizzoni praises Aristotle in terms that are strikingly similar to those employed by Galileo when penning a satirical portrait of dogmatic Aristotelians in his Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World.
A Conference on the Images of Nature in the Middle Ages.
Scopo del Convegno è evidenziare con un ... more A Conference on the Images of Nature in the Middle Ages. Scopo del Convegno è evidenziare con un approccio multidisciplinare e interdisciplinare come le rappresentazioni della natura si trasformino, nei contenuti e nei modi, fra il V e il XV secolo. Accanto alle rappresentazioni concettuali, proprie delle discipline teoretiche, sarà dato ampio spazio alle rappresentazioni figurative, letterarie e musicali. Non solo concezioni e teorie della natura, dunque, ma anche immagini, simboli, suoni che nel Medioevo riproducono, evocano o fingono mondi naturali. Rispetto agli studi già esistenti sull’argomento, il Convegno si propone di suggerire letture innovative che possano mettere in discussione i paradigmi storico-critici vigenti e le nozioni date per acquisite, contribuendo così a reimpostare l’intera questione in una nuova ottica, capace di superare le tradizionali frontiere disciplinari.
Italian translation, with introductions and notes, of Boethius of Dacia's De aeternitate mundi, ... more Italian translation, with introductions and notes, of Boethius of Dacia's De aeternitate mundi, De somniis, De summo bono
A cura di Gabriella Zuccolin.
G. Zuccolin, Introduzione. MEDICINA E FILOSOFIA NEL MEDIOEVO. L. B... more A cura di Gabriella Zuccolin. G. Zuccolin, Introduzione. MEDICINA E FILOSOFIA NEL MEDIOEVO. L. Bianchi, «Ubi desinit physicus, ibi medicus incipit» - P. B. Rossi, La Summa super 4 libro Metheororum attribuita a Guglielmo Anglico - A. Tabarroni, Medicina est philosophia corporis. Un sermo in principio studii di Bartolomeo da Varignana - R. Lambertini, Un medico-filosofo di fronte all’usura: Bartolomeo da Varignana - G. Fioravanti, Due Principia di Maino de’ Maineri. II. AUCTORES E TRASMISSIONE DEI TESTI MEDICI NEL MEDIOEVO. D. Jacquart, Hippocrate: le maître lointain et absolu des universitaires médiévaux - I. Ventura, Ps. Galenus, De medicinis expertis. Per un état des lieux - M. Nicoud, Alla ricerca degli autori cosiddetti «minori»: un percorso nella tradizione manoscritta del consilium. III. INTRECCI DISCIPLINARI: SAPERI BIOLOGICI, FILOSOFIA PRATICA E TEOLOGIA NEL MEDIOEVO. M. Parodi, Un percorso tra esperienza e cultura in Giovanni di Salisbury - L. Cova, Seme e generazione umana nelle opere teologiche di Alberto Magno - S. Vecchio, Passioni umane e passioni animali nel pensiero medievale - C. Casagrande, Tommaso d’Aquino: onori e virtù - A. Ghisalberti, Il metodo dialogico nella Disputatio fidei et intellectus di Raimondo Lullo (1303) - J. Ziegler, Engelbert of Admont and the Longevity of the Antediluvians, c. 1300 - S. Simonetta, «Ex fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos». J. Fortescue alle origini del comparativismo costituzionale e giuridico. IV. OLTRE IL MEDIOEVO: MEDICINA, ALCHIMIA E FILOSOFIA DAL XVI AL XIX SECOLO. A. Paravicini Bagliani, «Vives igitur, beatissime pater, ni fallor, diutissime». La prolongevità dei papi nel De vita hominis ultra CXX annos protrahenda di Tommaso Giannotti Rangoni (1493-1577) - M. Gadebusch Bondio, Il genio si racconta: Il De vita propria di Cardano e alcuni suoi celebri interpreti - F. Bacchelli, Una lettera inedita di Paolo Giovio a Gian Matteo Giberti - M. McVaugh - N. Siraisi, From the Old World to the New: The Circulation of the Blood - M. Pereira, «Vital Experiment». Alchimia, filosofia e medicina nel XIX secolo. Una divagazione - G. Zuccolin, Bibliografia di Chiara Crisciani. Indexes.
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Scopo del Convegno è evidenziare con un approccio multidisciplinare e interdisciplinare come le rappresentazioni della natura si trasformino, nei contenuti e nei modi, fra il V e il XV secolo. Accanto alle rappresentazioni concettuali, proprie delle discipline teoretiche, sarà dato ampio spazio alle rappresentazioni figurative, letterarie e musicali. Non solo concezioni e teorie della natura, dunque, ma anche immagini, simboli, suoni che nel Medioevo riproducono, evocano o fingono mondi naturali. Rispetto agli studi già esistenti sull’argomento, il Convegno si propone di suggerire letture innovative che possano mettere in discussione i paradigmi storico-critici vigenti e le nozioni date per acquisite, contribuendo così a reimpostare l’intera questione in una nuova ottica, capace di superare le tradizionali frontiere disciplinari.
G. Zuccolin, Introduzione. MEDICINA E FILOSOFIA NEL MEDIOEVO. L. Bianchi, «Ubi desinit physicus, ibi medicus incipit» - P. B. Rossi, La Summa super 4 libro Metheororum attribuita a Guglielmo Anglico - A. Tabarroni, Medicina est philosophia corporis. Un sermo in principio studii di Bartolomeo da Varignana - R. Lambertini, Un medico-filosofo di fronte all’usura: Bartolomeo da Varignana - G. Fioravanti, Due Principia di Maino de’ Maineri. II. AUCTORES E TRASMISSIONE DEI TESTI MEDICI NEL MEDIOEVO. D. Jacquart, Hippocrate: le maître lointain et absolu des universitaires médiévaux - I. Ventura, Ps. Galenus, De medicinis expertis. Per un état des lieux - M. Nicoud, Alla ricerca degli autori cosiddetti «minori»: un percorso nella tradizione manoscritta del consilium. III. INTRECCI DISCIPLINARI: SAPERI BIOLOGICI, FILOSOFIA PRATICA E TEOLOGIA NEL MEDIOEVO. M. Parodi, Un percorso tra esperienza e cultura in Giovanni di Salisbury - L. Cova, Seme e generazione umana nelle opere teologiche di Alberto Magno - S. Vecchio, Passioni umane e passioni animali nel pensiero medievale - C. Casagrande, Tommaso d’Aquino: onori e virtù - A. Ghisalberti, Il metodo dialogico nella Disputatio fidei et intellectus di Raimondo Lullo (1303) - J. Ziegler, Engelbert of Admont and the Longevity of the Antediluvians, c. 1300 - S. Simonetta, «Ex fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos». J. Fortescue alle origini del comparativismo costituzionale e giuridico. IV. OLTRE IL MEDIOEVO: MEDICINA, ALCHIMIA E FILOSOFIA DAL XVI AL XIX SECOLO. A. Paravicini Bagliani, «Vives igitur, beatissime pater, ni fallor, diutissime». La prolongevità dei papi nel De vita hominis ultra CXX annos protrahenda di Tommaso Giannotti Rangoni (1493-1577) - M. Gadebusch Bondio, Il genio si racconta: Il De vita propria di Cardano e alcuni suoi celebri interpreti - F. Bacchelli, Una lettera inedita di Paolo Giovio a Gian Matteo Giberti - M. McVaugh - N. Siraisi, From the Old World to the New: The Circulation of the Blood - M. Pereira, «Vital Experiment». Alchimia, filosofia e medicina nel XIX secolo. Una divagazione - G. Zuccolin, Bibliografia di Chiara Crisciani. Indexes.