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)