The Italian mind : vernacular logic in Renaissance Italy (1540-1551) / by Marco Sgarbi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sgarbi, Marco, 1982- author.

Series:

Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 12.

Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, 0925-7683 ; volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Logic--History--16th century.

Logic.

Language and languages--Philosophy--History.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Philosophy.

History.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

Aristotle--Influence.

Physical Description:

vi, 246 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2014.

Summary:

From the twelfth to the seventeenth-century, Aristotle's writing lay at the foundation of Western culture, providing a body of knowledge and a set of analytical tools applicable to all areas of human investigation. Scholars of the Renaissance have emphasized the remarkable longevity of Aristotelianism, but they have mainly focused on the Latin tradition. Scarce, if any, attention has gone to vernacular works. Nonetheless, several important Renaissance figures wished to make Aristole's works accessible and available outside the narrow circle-of professional philosophers and university professors to a broad set of readers. The thesis underpinning this book is that Italian vernacular Arirtotelianism, especially in the field of logic, made fundamental contribution to the thought of the period, anticipating many of the features of early modern philosophy and contributing to a new conception of knowledge. Book jacket.

Contents:

Language, vernacular and philosophy

Sperone Speroni between language and logic

Benedetto Varchi and the idea of a vernacular logic (1540)

Antonio Tridapale and the first vernacular logic (1547)

Nicolo Massa's logic for natural philosophy (1549)

Alessandro Piccolomini's instrument of philosophy (1551)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004264090

9004264094

9789004264298

9004264299

OCLC:

865494062