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Università degli Studi di Milano – Dipartimento di Filosofia “Piero Martinetti”, Aula 113, Via Festa del Perdono 3, Milano 10 novembre 2017, ore 9.30 Tavola rotonda sul tema: “Fra Medioevo e Rinascimento: filosofia in Italia o... more
Università degli Studi di Milano – Dipartimento di Filosofia “Piero Martinetti”, Aula 113, Via Festa del Perdono 3, Milano
10 novembre 2017, ore 9.30
Tavola rotonda sul tema: “Fra Medioevo e Rinascimento:
filosofia in Italia o filosofia italiana?”
10 novembre 2017, ore 9.30
Tavola rotonda sul tema: “Fra Medioevo e Rinascimento:
filosofia in Italia o filosofia italiana?”
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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 refers to the bull Apostolici regiminis, published... 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 refers 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 are 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 from mid-thirteenth century onwards; and for a long time it was presented by historians as the hallmark of the so-called ‘Averroism’, which was supposed to accept 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 masters of philosophy who supported the ‘Alexandrist’ and the ‘Averroist ’ interpretations of Aristotle’s psychology, can be found not only in Aristotle’s but also in Averroes’ works; that Averroes gave it one of its clearest formulations; and that he had no significant impact on the way of understanding the relationship between philosophy and religious beliefs suggested by 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 tried indeed to avoid the conflict between Aristotle’s philosophy and the teachings of Christian faith 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’.
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In a well-known article, first published in 1985, Charles B. Schmitt called attention to the dictum “ubi desinit physicus, ibi medicus incipit”, extracted from a passage of Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato and widespread among... more
In a well-known article, first published in 1985, Charles B. Schmitt called attention to the dictum “ubi desinit physicus, ibi medicus incipit”, extracted from a passage of Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato and widespread among sixteenth-century thinkers who discussed the relationships of philosophy to medicine. Although Schmitt made clear that this dictum might have earlier roots, little attention has been paid to its origins and its first diffusion. This paper aims at reconstructing the genesis of the different versions of this saying, by focusing on a few Aristotelian florilegia and their sources. In so doing, it shows that what has been considered a Renaissance and early modern topos dates back to the beginning of the Latin exegetical tradition of Aristotle’s De sensu et sensato and, in particular, to one of the commentaries on this treatise ascribed to Adam of Buckfield.
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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... 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’s works and Aquinas’ 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 provide therefore evidence for interesting interactions between the so-called ‘scholastic’ and ‘humanistic’ Aristotelianism.
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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
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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... 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 Aristotelianism with materials issued from different philosophical traditions.
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Résumé/Abstract A few years ago, Malcolm de Mowbray argued that nearly everything that had been written concerning the origins of the condemnation issued on March 7, 1277 by the bishop of Paris, Stephen Tempier, was based on the unproven... more
Résumé/Abstract A few years ago, Malcolm de Mowbray argued that nearly everything that had been written concerning the origins of the condemnation issued on March 7, 1277 by the bishop of Paris, Stephen Tempier, was based on the unproven assumption that what ...
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... a distinguere con maggior precisione ma anche con fatica, non senza slittamenti concettuali e confusioni terminologiche i mira-coli dai mirabilia, dai monstra ... che ha violato il principio della non compene-trabilità fra i... more
... a distinguere con maggior precisione ma anche con fatica, non senza slittamenti concettuali e confusioni terminologiche i mira-coli dai mirabilia, dai monstra ... che ha violato il principio della non compene-trabilità fra i corpi, oppure l'arresto dell'acqua del Giordano, in con ...
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... 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.
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... Après une brève consultation avec le chancelier Jean des Alleux, l'évêque Tempier et Ranulphe de la Houblonnière (destiné à succéder à Tempier), Simon le somma alors de s'exprimer de manière explicite devant ses étudiants;... more
... Après une brève consultation avec le chancelier Jean des Alleux, l'évêque Tempier et Ranulphe de la Houblonnière (destiné à succéder à Tempier), Simon le somma alors de s'exprimer de manière explicite devant ses étudiants; et pour éviter tout malentendu, comminando ...
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... in the middle of the sixteenth century, Byzantine commentators such as Michael Psellos and ... Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, John of Jandun, Walter Burley, and John ... Javelli would write during the controversy over... more
... in the middle of the sixteenth century, Byzantine commentators such as Michael Psellos and ... Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Giles of Rome, John of Jandun, Walter Burley, and John ... Javelli would write during the controversy over Pomponazzi's treatise on immortality,''the philosophy ...
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“Prophanae novitates et doctrinae peregrinae. La méfiance à l’égard des innovations théoriques aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles”, in Tradition, Innovation, Invention. Fortschrittsverweigerung und Fortrschrittsbewusstsein in Mittelalter, hrsg. H.-J. Schmidt, de Gruyter, Berlin – New York 2005, pp. 211-229more
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Un tempo presentato come periodo di crisi, o addirittura di declino del pensiero europeo, il secolo XIV si rivela invece, nella storiografia recente, sempre più ricco di riflessioni innovative in vari ambiti del sapere. Dedicati a Maria... more
Un tempo presentato come periodo di crisi, o addirittura di declino del pensiero europeo, il secolo XIV si rivela invece, nella storiografia recente, sempre più ricco di riflessioni innovative in vari ambiti del sapere. Dedicati a Maria Elena Reina, che della filosofia di quel secolo seppe cogliere prima di altri l’importanza e la fecondità, i saggi qui raccolti si concentrano in particolare sui dibattiti relativi ai modi, alle forme, agli oggetti della conoscenza. Si tratta di una tematica già ampiamente indagata ma assai significativa, considerato che molti filosofi e teologi del Trecento riorientarono le loro ricerche da problemi di natura metafisico-teologica a interrogativi di tipo gnoseologico, logico-linguistico, psicologico. Il motivo che percorre e unifica questi studi non è quindi meramente cronologico. Da prospettive diverse essi esaminano non tanto le diverse concezioni della realtà, ma le discussioni su che cosa l’uomo può desiderare di sapere, su come può pensare, conoscere, parlare delle res: da Dio ai colori, dall’experientia agli oggetti mentali.
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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... 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.
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Italian translation, with introductions and notes, of Boethius of Dacia's De aeternitate mundi, De somniis, De summo bono
