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Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum was one of the most popular works of ethical and political thought in the later Middle Ages and functioned as one of the main means by which Aristotelian theory was transmitted to princes and poets.... more
This article deals with the transfer and fusion of scientific-biblical knowledge among Jews, converts, and Christians in the 1390s. Following up on hints supplied by a cryptic Hebrew report, the article tracks and explores a... more
This paper examines the concept of courage within medieval ethics and uses the Battle of Agincourt as a case-study for how medieval writers discussed this virtue. It shows how courage was defined as the virtuous mean between the vices of... more
Fonti e analisi lessicale della parola "tetragono" in Paradiso XVII 24.
This paper looks at justifications of peasant inequality in the thought of John of Salisbury, Giles of Rome and Christine de Pizan and asks if such ideology had any impact on social reality.
The appropriation of the works of Aristotle and his commentators on the emotions by scholars like Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century brought about the challenge of accommodating them within the Christian ethical tradition. I explore... more
This chapter reviews major accounts of free decision of the second half of the thirteenth century, from St. Bonaventure to Duns Scotus. A clear divide between intellectualists and voluntarists is observable beginning in the early 1270s,... more
La 'Carta y breve compendio' (1466), dirigida a Rodrigo Alfonso, IV conde de Benavente, y la 'Exhortación o información de buena y sana doctrina' (1467), dirigida al rey niño Alfonso XII de Castilla (1465-1468), redactadas por el letrado... more
To Stir a Restless Heart tells for the first time the story of how Thomas Aquinas conversed with his contemporaries about the dynamics of human nature's longing for God, and documents how he deliberately utilized Greek, Arabic, Hebrew,... more
This article focuses on Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum (ca. 1280) and on its oldest Italian version (Governamento dei re e dei principi, 1288), which is based on the Old French translation by Henri de Gauchy (1282). One of the most... more
Whilst medieval rulers were advised to urge pride and excessive showiness, they were also counselled on the need to display magnificence to their subjects and to other rulers.
This article explores the reception of Aristotle’s 'Liber de bona fortuna' in sixteenth-century Italy by examining two specific works, Chrysostomus Javelli’s 'Epitome De bona fortuna' (1531) and Girolamo Garimberti’s 'Della fortuna'... more
L’articolo anticipa alcuni tra i risultati più rilevanti dell’edizione critica del Livro del governamento dei re e dei principi, volgarizzamento del De regimine principum di Egidio Romano attraverso l’intermediario francese di Henri de... more
The present volume brings together thirteen articles as so many chapters of a book, devoted to the history, methods, and practices of the commentaries that have been written on Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Examining both the linguistic and... more
During the conflict between pope Boniface VIII and Philip the Fair, King of France, the so called "Donation of Constantine" was used as an authoritative text concerning the legal relationship of pope and emperor, of church and... more
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Order is one of the most central concepts in the history of political thought. The English word (just as the French ordre, the German Ordnung, the Italian ordine, or the Spanish orden) is derived from the Latin term ordo, which can denote... more
Among the cultural traits shared across European countries in the Middle Ages, one of the most prominent elements of their common classical inheritance is often forgotten by scholars: Roman law. Commentaries on aspects of the law were... more
This paper deals with Giles of Rome's position on the nature of faith in the reportatio of his Sentences commentary (l. III, q. 38, dist. 23). Its distinctive feature is that it is founded on a comparison between faith and rhetoric. For... more
Ce colloque se propose d’observer l’activité exégétique suscitée par la Rhétorique d’Aristote, de l’Antiquité gréco-latine jusqu’à l’époque contemporaine, dans les aires gréco-romaine, syriaque, arabe, latine. Cette pratique sera... more
In this book, Valérie Cordonier and Tommaso De Robertis provide the first study, along with edition and translation, of Chrysostomus Javelli's epitome of the Liber de bona fortuna (1531), the famous thirteenth-century Latin compilation of... more
On the question of the intensio/remissio formarum, Giles, while sharing Thomas Aquinas’s view’s main tenets, develops a very different theory – in fact, a theory that is unique, and deeply “aegidian”: the increase or decrease does not... more
Some remarks on Dante's "Monarchia", the so-called political Averroism, and universalism in political tought