Col nome de Dio Segreto de segreti, le Moralita, & la Phisionomia d'Aristotile : doue si trattano è mirabili ammaestramenti ch'egli scrisse al Magno Alessandro si per il reggimento de l'imperio, come per la conseruatione de la sanita, & per conoscere le persone à che siano inclinate, ad esempio & giouamento d'ogn'uno accomodatissimi / fatti nuouamente volgari, per Giouanni Manente.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aristotle.

Manenti, Zuan.

Joannes, Tacuinus, de Tridino, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Greek Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Secretum secretorum. Italian.

Language:

Arabic

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Education of princes--Early works to 1800.

Education of princes.

Political ethics--Early works to 1800.

Political ethics.

Islamic magic--Early works to 1800.

Kings and rulers--Duties--Early works to 1800.

Kings and rulers--Duties.

Physiognomy--Early works to 1800.

Physiognomy.

Medicine, Greek and Roman--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Medicine, Greek and Roman.

Islamic magic.

Physical Description:

7 unnumbered leaves, XLI, XLI-CXII, that is, CXIII leaves : 1 illustration ; 22 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Segreto de segreti le Moralita, & la Phisionomia d'Aristotile

Fingerprint:

iire iiii lera memo (3) 1538 (R)

Place of Publication:

Stampata in Vinegia : Per Zuan Tacuino da Trino, nel anno del Signor. MDXXXVIII [1538]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon.

"Secretum secretorum" was falsely believed to have been written by Aristotle for Alexander the Great.. The Latin text of Secretum secretorum was first translated from the Arabic "Kitab Sirr al-asrar" by Philip of Tripoli, early in the thirteenth century.

"Secretum secretorum" has been spuriously attributed to Aristotle. Work is a medieval treatise taking the form of a pseudoepigraphical letter supposedly from Aristotle to Alexander the Great during his campaigns in Persia. First Latin translation was issued in 12th century based on a 10th century Arabic encyclopedic treatise called "Kitab Sirr al-asrar" discussing a wide range of topics, including statecraft, ethics, physiognomy, astrology, alchemy, magic and medicine

Translated by Giouanni Manente.

Signatures: *⁴ A-2F⁴.

Leaf number XLI repeated in foliation.

Title printed in frame within decorative floral border.

Woodcut vignette on recto of leaf *2 title page has text "Iustus ut palma florebit"; printer's device in colophon identified as Vaccaro 418 in EDIT 16.

"Moralita" appears to be a paraphrase of Ethica Nicomachea and the "Phisionomia" based in part on Roger Bacon's version of Secretum secretorum Cf. Riley.

Cited in:

EDIT 16 (WWW) CNCE 47785

Index Aureliensis 107.978

Moss, J.W. Classical bibliography (2nd ed) I, p. 185

Riley, L. Aristotle texts and commentaries in Univ. of Pennsylvania Libraries, 238

Related Work:

Aristotle. Nicomachean ethics. Italian

OCLC:

701774776