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12Editorial. Aristotle across BoundariesAristotelica 4 (4): 1-2. 2023.In June 2023, a group of ‘Aristotelians without Borders’ met in the splendid Villa San Remigio in Verbania, one of the beautiful premises of the University of Eastern Piedmont. Following in the footsteps of Aristotelians over the centuries, the participants were committed to the belief that engaging in dialogue has a value in itself. Our Aristotelian predecessors have collectively bequeathed to us a common language, a shared form of rationality and a grammar of thought which allow us to engage i…Read more
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8A Hypothetical Premise about Eternal Cosmic Motion in the Critical Text of Physics VIII 1.250b13Aristotelica. forthcoming.This paper is concerned with an important variant reading discovered at the beginning of Book VIII of Aristotle’s _Physics_. The reading is found in J, the oldest manuscript of this work (Vind. phil. gr. 100, 9th c.): at VIII 1.250b13, J reads εἰ ἦν, “if it [_scil_. the movement] was”, instead of ἀεὶ ἦν, “it always was”, the only reading so far taken into account. Several early witnesses support J: E (Paris. gr. 1853, 10th c.), the Greek into Latin translation by James of Venice (first half of t…Read more
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3Alexandre d'Aphrodise contre GalienPhilosophie Antique 2 109-144. 2002.Un certain nombre de sources arabes font état d'une polémique entre Alexandre et Galien. Une tendance marquée de la recherche a été de lire nos sources grecques, relativement peu nombreuses, à la lumière de cette tradition. L'objectif de cet article est de contester le bien-fondé d'une telle orientation, et de dégager en même temps le statut spécifique de ce genre de récit biographique.
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8Aristotelianism as a commentary traditionIn Peter Adamson, Han Baltussen & M. W. F. Stone (eds.), Philosophy, Science and Exegesis in Greek, Arabic and Latin Commentaries., . pp. 1-19. 2004.
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339La tradizione a stampa della Metaphysica Nova arabo-latina negli incunaboli e nelle cinquecentineAristotelica 2 (2): 95-117. 2022.This paper provides an annotated list of printed editions of Aristotle’s Metaphysica Nova, i.e. of the Arabic-Latin 13th-century version of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, which circulated within the Latin translation of Averroes’ Commentarium Magnum (Tafsīr mā baʿd al-ṭabīʿat). It is shown that this version – the impact of which was second to none –was never printed without at least one Greek-into-Latin version. From the 1473 editio princeps to the 1562 Iunctasedition, complementary material from the…Read more
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24Il testo della Metafisica nell’«Aristotele di Vienna»Chôra 20 349-365. 2022.This article proposes a follow up of Fazzo’s contributions on the stemma codicum of Aristotle’s Metaphysics – including her Chora 2015 paper, its completion in the 2017 Revue d’Histoire des Textes and, most recently, a contribution on the text of Zeta 17 in Aristotelica 1 2022. All of these are summarized and framed here in the context of today’s lively debate. We then introduce the data of Marco Ghione’s collation and comparison of the readings of the two oldest manuscripts J and E : J, the Vin…Read more
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13Commento al libro Lambda della Metafisica di AristoteleBibliopolis. 2014.Prologo -- Introduzione -- Leggere Lambda per intero e come un intero -- Motivi conduttori e scopo peculiare del libro Lambda -- Trama e argomento del libro Lambda, per capitoli -- Addendum sulla costituzione del testo -- Commento.
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22Ousia comme nom déverbal dans la philosophie première d’AristoteChôra 18 221-256. 2020.The initial dilemma. I.1. The gradual rise of the Metaphysics. I.2. A bold contribution from textual history. I.3. A new perspective on late ancient commentaries. I.4. First philosophy or Metaphysics? I.5. Can tradition be ignored? II. ‘Being’ and οὐσία at the core of Aristotle’s theoretical research. II.1. Ontology as a science of ‘being’ in Aristotle: “What is X?” in the foreground. II.2. The first caveat: the copula function of Aristotle’s ‘being’. II.3. The definite article τό as quotation m…Read more
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10Una versione progredita della teoria delle idee nel papiro di Ai Khanoum: una scoperta nella scopertaElenchos: Rivista di Studi Sul Pensiero Antico 41 (1): 157-163. 2020.The paper firstly focuses on a rare vox, that is, the verb μετίσχω, as a new finding in two different sources: the Π text of Methaphysics Lambda 1075b19 and the “Ai Khanoum philosophical papyrus” (not only at column II.9, but arguably at II.11 and IV.8–9 as well). Using the verb μετίσχω testifies for a “2.0 version” of the theory of ideas, in a subsequent phase to Plato’s Parmenides. Xenocrates is likely to have played a role. This suggests a deeper connection than previously thought between Ari…Read more
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15L’epilogo del libro Lambda della Metafisica di Aristotele : il Bene come principioChôra 15 359-377. 2017.Not many texts from the Greek classical literature focus on the nature of the Good more closely than Aristotle’ Metaphysics Lambda 10. The first section raises the question to be answered henceforth : is the Good to be conceived as anything separated or does it intrinsically belong to the universe, as a way of being? And if both ways, how so, and which way first, and why?According to a current reading, which is well established in the commentary tradition, Aristotle’s Good comes, first of all, a…Read more
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22Le manuscrit Laurentianus 87.12 comme le témoin le plus ancien du Commentaire d’Alexandre d’Aphrodise à la Métaphysique d’Aristote (review)Chôra 15 675-704. 2017.Prolegomena pour une nouvelle modalite critique d’edition et de reference concernant le temoignage d’Alexandre sur le texte de la Metaphysique d’Aristote. Methode et cas d’etude : ‘Alexandre’ et le ‘telephone sans fil’ des apparats critiques in Metaphysique 1072b2‑3. Quel ‘Commentaire’ d’Alexandre? Un texte a re‑etablir. Les editions du commentaire d’Alexandre au XIXe siecle : le role du manuscrit Monacensis gr. 81, a. 1550 env.. L’edition Hayduck 1888 du commentaire d’Asclepius comme etude de c…Read more
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An edition of public school record books from Cinquecento Milan (1518-1563)Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 53 (4): 799-819. 1998.
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209Ruoli delle scuole pubbliche a Milano nel cinquecentoRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 4. 1998.Edition of newly discovered 'Ruoli' of Public Schools (scuole del Broletto, later called 'Scuole Palatine) in the XVIth c. Milan
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352L'esordio del libro Lambda della MetafisicaRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 100 (2): 159-181. 2008.The particular subject of this article is the very first sentence of Aristotle’s Metaphysics book Lambda: what does it really mean? I would stick to the most generous sense: (Aristotelian) theoria is about substance. Indeed, it has been often held that Lambda ignores the so-called focal meaning, and shows a remarkably rough stage of Aristotle’s conception of prime philosophy. By contrast, in this light, the very incipit of Lambda appears to testify Aristotle’s concern in an ontological foundatio…Read more
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Studies on the history of philosophy. The debut of the Lambda book on metaphysicsRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 100 (2-3): 159-181. 2008.
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44L’exégèse du livre Lambda de la Métaphysique d’Aristote dans le De principiis et dans la Quaestio I.1 d’Alexandre d’AphrodiseLaval Théologique et Philosophique 64 (3): 607-626. 2008.Le commentaire continu d’Alexandre d’Aphrodise sur le livre Lambda de la Métaphysique d’Aristote était déjà perdu au XIIe siècle. Néanmoins, il exerçait toujours une influence par l’entremise du commentaire d’Averroès et de deux autres textes d’Alexandre: le traité Sur les principes de l’univers et la Quaestio I.1. Le présent article montre que ces deux derniers textes renferment chacun une section qui s’appuie sur Métaphysique Lambda, chapitres 6 et suiv., ce qui confirme le fait, ayant été éta…Read more
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411Aristotle’s Theory of Causes and the Holy TrinityLaval Théologique et Philosophique 64 (3): 681-690. 2008.L’identité et la datation de Nicolas le Péripatéticien, l’auteur d’un sommaire de la philosophie d’Aristote, ont fait l’objet d’un article récent de Silvia Fazzo paru dans la Revue des Études Grecques. Contre la datation courante, fondée sur l’identification de Nicolas à l’historien de grand renom Nicolas Damascène , Fazzo a montré que Nicolas avait probablement vécu au cours de la période couvrant les IIIe au Ve siècles ap. J.-C., et plus problablement à l’époque de l’empereur Julien l’Apostat …Read more
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80Alexander of Aphrodisias in the Kindī-Cricle and in Al-Kindī' CosmologyArabic Sciences and Philosophy 3 (1): 119. 1993.How do the heavenly bodies physically affect the sublunary world? On this topic, the few fragmentary statements by Aristotle were refined and expanded by his Greek commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias. In the Kind-circle adaptations of Alexander and al-Kind-circle's Alexander was closely followed by al-Kind himself exerted a reciprocal influence on the Arabic Alexander, who was largely the product of his own group of translators. The appendix contains English translations from Arabic of two adap…Read more
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501Verso una nuova editio minor della Metafisica di AristoteleChôra 13 253-294. 2015.I. Introduzione. I.1. Un’editio minor come sfida aperta. I.2 Per una più selettiva eliminatio. II.1 Sulla storia del problema : l’eredità del XIX secolo (Brandis 1823, Christ 1885, Gercke 1892) nelle edizioni del XX (Ross 1924, Jaeger 1957). II.2. Studi recenti : la necessità di un superamento. II.3. Lo stemma di riferimento : Harlfinger (1979). II.4. L’applicazione dello stemma nel libro Alpha edito da Primavesi. II.5. La revisione dello stemma, proposta per Kappa e Lambda (2009, 2010). II.6. L…Read more
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426One of the main philosophical works by Alexander of Aphrodisias, De principiis, is lost in its original Greek text, but it is preserved in three extant Medieval Semitic versions, one in Syriac and two in Arabic, which were written in the Near East between 500 and 950 AD. These versions are not totally identical and, as we have shown in 2012, they are in a rather complex textual relationship. As we will show in this article, a tentative reconstruction of the lost text should be based upon an atte…Read more
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283Un'arte inconfutabile. La difesa dell'astrologia nella "Tetrabiblos" di TolomeoRivista di Storia Della Filosofia 46 (2): 213. 1991.This analysis of Ptolemy's Teatriblos deals with how the social and cultural role of astrology changed between lì and III century a D.: from a practice hard fought, although successful, to a generally accepted branch of knowledge. In Ptolemy's treatise astrology is shown to be not a science but an art: a techne" fallible but not controvertible. As the basis for such a project of reforming common opinion about astrol¬ogy, we find a quiet yielding attitude toward sceptical antidogmatism, and a non…Read more
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Théophraste, "Métaphisique", a cura di A. Laks e G.W. Most (review)Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 50 (1): 202. 1995.
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682Aristotle’s Metaphysics – Current Research to Reconcile Two Branches of the TraditionArchiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 98 (4): 433-457. 2016.Name der Zeitschrift: Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie Jahrgang: 98 Heft: 4 Seiten: 433-457.
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24Unmoved Mover as Pure Act or Unmoved Mover in Act? The Mystery of a Subscript IotaIn Christoph Horn (ed.), Aristotle’s "Metaphysics" Lambda – New Essays, De Gruyter. pp. 181-206. 2016.
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216Frammenti da Alessandro di Afrodisia «In de generatione et corruptione» nel «Kitab al-Tasrif»: problemi di riconoscimento e di ricostruzioneDocumenti E Studi Sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 10 195-203. 1999.L'esistenza del commento di Alessandro di Afrodisia al De generatione aristotelico, perduto nella versione greca e nella traduzione araba, è attestata da numerose fonti arabe, tra le quali Averroè, nel suo commento alla stessa opera. L'A. rintraccia la presenza, la tipologia e la distribuzione delle citazioni tratte dal commento di Alessandro nel Kitab al-Tasrif, un'opera del corpus alchemico attribuita a Gabir ibn Hayyan. Secondo l'A., la sezione interessata dalle citazioni assembla tre diversi…Read more
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