Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century
Publisher: Warburg Institute
Published: Dec 01, 2016
Language: eng; ita
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781908590527
Description: This volume 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.