Aristotle's zoology and its Renaissance commentators (1521-1601)
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Aristotle's zoology and its Renaissance commentators (1521-1601)
（Ancient and medieval philosophy / De Wulf-Mansion Centre, ser. 1 ; 27）
Leuven University Press, 2000
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-249) and indexes
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Description
Almost neglected in the Middle Ages, Aristotle's libri de animalibus received increasing attention in the Cinquecento, and were often commented on by several professional Aristotelians. Through close scrutiny of unpublished and rare texts, Dr. Perfetti reconstructs this commentary tradition: a parabola that goes from Pomponazzi's lessons on the De partibus animalium (held in Bologna, 1521-23) up to the publication of Cristoforo Guarinoni's Commentaria in primum librum De historia animalium, Frankfurt 1601, and includes other bright lights of the Aristotelian scene, such as Niccolò Leonico Tomeo, Agostino Nifo, Julius Caesar Scaliger, Simone Porzio, Francesco Vimercato, and Cesare Cremonini (while a sort of paragraph zero is devoted to Theodore Gaza). The author pays special attention to the peculiar techniques of analysis employed by each commentator and to the balance between philology, erudition, and natural philosophy. This study also provides a reading key that explains the reasons of this renewed interest for philosophical zoology in the first half of the century and explains why commentators transformed their use of Aristotle's zoology throughout the second half of the century, to reach, eventually, the extinction of exegesis per modum commenti.
Table of Contents
Introduction
A postponed occasion: the 15th century preface by Theodore Gaza
I. Scholastic Architecture and Humanist Philology
Pietro Pomponazzi
NiccolಠLeonico Tomeo
Agostino Nifo
II. A new exegetic tradition
Simone Porzio
Francesco Vimercato
Julius Cesar Scaliger
III Discourse on the soul and on methods
Cesare Odoni
Daniel Furlanus
Cesare Cremonini
Cristoforo Guarinoni
Conclusion: the dissolution of a genre
Bibliography
Index locorum Aristotelis
Index nominum
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