Nicolaus Viti Gozzius: In primum librum Artis rhetoricorum Aristotelis commentaria
Nicolaus Viti Gozzius: In primum librum Artis rhetoricorum Aristotelis commentaria

Author: Gorana Stepanić

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-11

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9004685847

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This is a critical edition of Nikola Vitov Gučetić’s (1549–1610) Commentary on the First Book of Aristotle’s ‘Rhetoric’, with an introductory study and supplementary materials. The purpose of the edition is to provide a clear Latin text for scholars and students of the humanities, especially researchers in Renaissance rhetoric and philosophy. The book will be of particular interest to scholars of the history and culture of Dubrovnik. Gučetić’s Commentary gives a precious glimpse into the transformative character of Aristotle’s Rhetoric in the Renaissance, demonstrating the profound influence this ancient text had not only on leading Humanist scholars and renowned Renaissance philosophers, but also on lesser-known thinkers who depended on the art of persuasion in their political and judicial careers.

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

Author: Marco Sgarbi

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 3618

ISBN-13: 3319141694

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Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

Nicolaus Viti Gozzius: In Primum Librum Artis Rhetoricorum Aristotelis Commentaria
Nicolaus Viti Gozzius: In Primum Librum Artis Rhetoricorum Aristotelis Commentaria

Author: Gorana Stepanic

Publisher: Brill's Studies in Intellectua

Published: 2023-12-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004515901

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This critical edition of Nikola Vitov Gučetic's (1549-1610) Commentary on the First Book of Aristotle's 'Rhetoric', with an introduction and supplementary material, shows how Aristotle's Rhetoric influenced lesser-known thinkers who depended on the art of persuasion in their careers.

Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change
Eighteenth-Century Periodicals as Agents of Change

Author: Ellen Krefting

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9004293116

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Periodicals were an essential medium during eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The era’s growing number of newspapers and journals made possible a fast and vast dissemination of ideas and debates. Journals were a particularly important means of transmitting ideas, genres, texts, and pieces of information from country to country, from centre to periphery, and from press to subscribers. These journals became agents of change by mediating the increasingly profound and widespread urge to write and read and to engage in political debate. This volume, edited by Ellen Krefting, Aina Nøding and Mona Ringvej, presents contributions that explore this media revolution from a Northern perspective. The chapters throw new light on the reception of Enlightenment ideas and practices in Denmark–Norway, Sweden–Finland, and beyond. Taken together, they make a strong case for the transnational and revolutionary character of the Enlightenment as a whole.

Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos)
Pseudo-Aristotle: De Mundo (On the Cosmos)

Author: Pavel Gregorić

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1108890245

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De mundo is a protreptic to philosophy in the form of a letter to Alexander the Great and is traditionally ascribed to Aristotle. It offers a unique view of the cosmos, God and their relationship, which was inspired by Aristotle but written by a later author. The author provides an outline of cosmology, geography and meteorology, only to argue that a full understanding of the cosmos cannot be achieved without a proper grasp of God as its ultimate cause. To ensure such a grasp, the author provides a series of twelve carefully chosen interlocking analogies, building a complex picture in the reader's mind. The work develops a distinctly Aristotelian picture of God and the cosmos while paying tribute to pre-Aristotelian philosophers and avoiding open criticism of rival schools of philosophy. De mundo exercised considerable influence in late antiquity and then in the Renaissance and Early Modern times.

Aristotle on the Common Sense
Aristotle on the Common Sense

Author: Pavel Gregoric

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-06-14

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0199277370

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Gregoric investigates the Aristolian concept of the common sense, which was introduced to explain complex perceptual operations that can't be explained in terms of the five senses taken individually. Such operations include perceiving that the same object is white and sweet, or knowing that one's senses are inactive.

Cosmic Order and Divine Power
Cosmic Order and Divine Power

Author: Johan C. Thom

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9783161528095

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The treatise De mundo offers a cosmology in the Peripatetic tradition which subordinates what happens in the cosmos to the might of an omnipotent god. Thus the work is paradigmatic for the philosophical and religious concepts of the early imperial age, which offer points of contact with nascent Christianity.

Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100
Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100

Author: László Sándor Chardonnens

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 9004158294

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This book offers an analysis of the status and function of the Anglo-Saxon prognostics in their manuscript context, a study of their introduction to and transmission in Anglo-Saxon England, and, for the first time, a comprehensive edition of prognostics in Old English and Latin.

Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism
Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism

Author: Thomas Hendrickson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9004338179

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Winner of the 2018 Josef IJsewijn Prize for Best Book on a Neo-Latin Topic Although many humanists, from Petrarch to Fulvio Orsini, had written briefly about library history, the De bibliothecis of Justus Lipsius was the first self-contained monograph on the topic. The De bibliothecis proved to be a seminal achievement, both in redefining the scope of library history and in articulating a vision of a public, secular, research institution for the humanities. It was repeatedly reprinted and translated, plagiarized and epitomized. Through the end of the nineteenth century, scholars turned to it as the ultimate foundation for any discussion of library history. In Ancient Libraries and Renaissance Humanism, Hendrickson presents a critical edition of Lipsius’s work with introductory studies, a Latin text, English translation, and a substantial historical commentary.