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Between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, the rise of international trade, the growth of towns and cities, and the politics of diplomacy all helped to foster productive and farreaching connections and cultural interactions between... more
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval urban historyPetrarchLate Medieval English History
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      MetaphysicsMedieval PhilosophyBonaventureThomas Aquinas
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      RhetoricAristotleMedieval StudiesThomas Aquinas
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
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      Medieval PhilosophyMedieval LiteratureIdeologyMedieval Political Thought
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
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      Medieval ScienceMedieval Iberian HistoryThomas AquinasJewish - Christian Relations
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
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      EducationRhetoricAristotleRenaissance Studies
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      TheologyHistorical TheologyAquinasTheological Anthropology
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
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      CourageGiles of RomeAgincourtMedieval Ethics
Fonti e analisi lessicale della parola "tetragono" in Paradiso XVII 24.
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      Dante StudiesItalian StudiesItalian LiteratureItalian philology
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.
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      Medieval PhilosophyMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesGiles of Rome
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
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      Education EthicsEmotions (Social Psychology)Education, Ethics (Medieval Studies)Giles of Rome
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      Karl RahnerThomas AquinasMystical TheologyGiles of Rome
I contributi raccolti in questo volume esaminano le diverse sfaccettature della multiforme eredità di Agostino nel Trecento italiano. In particolare si concentrano sulla influenza esercitata dalla frequentazione diretta delle opere... more
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      IconographyPetrarchAugustineAugustine of Hippo
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      Dante StudiesItalian philologyMedieval vernacular translations (volgarizzamenti)Giles of Rome
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
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      Medieval PhilosophyMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesAquinas
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
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      Political PhilosophyEthicsAristotleBoccaccio
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
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      TheologyHistorical TheologySystematic TheologyAquinas
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      Medieval TheologyGiles of Rome
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
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      Dante StudiesItalian philologyDanteDante Alighieri
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.
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      AristotleMedieval Political TheoryGiles of RomeRichard II
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
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      Translation StudiesRenaissance HumanismRenaissance PhilosophyScholastic Philosophy
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
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      Italian StudiesRomance philologyItalian philologyMedieval vernacular translations (volgarizzamenti)
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
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      EducationRhetoricAristotleRenaissance Studies
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      Medieval Political ThoughtGiles of Romereign of Philip the FairLate Medieval French History
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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      Medieval PhilosophyMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesHistory of Political Thought
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      Medieval PhilosophyMedieval HistoryPhilosophical LogicPhilosophy of Logic
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
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      OntologyPolitical TheoryHobbesDiscourse
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      Rare Books and ManuscriptsThomas AquinasProclusManuscripts (Medieval Studies)
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      Medieval PhilosophyMedieval logicThomismSecond Scholasticism
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
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      Medieval HistoryLegal HistoryMedieval Latin LiteratureManuscript Studies
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      Medieval StudiesItalian philologyMedieval vernacular translations (volgarizzamenti)Giles of Rome
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      RhetoricMedieval RhetoricThomas AquinasAl Farabi
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
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      Medieval PhilosophyRhetoricThomas AquinasFaith
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      Medieval PhilosophyMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesHistory of Political Thought
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      Thomas AquinasFrancisco SuárezAlbertus MagnusGiles of Rome
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
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      RhetoricAristotleCommentaries: History and TheoryMartin Heidegger
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      Dante StudiesItalian philologyDanteDante Alighieri
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
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      Medieval StudiesRenaissance PhilosophyRenaissance AristotelianismGiles of Rome
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
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      MetaphysicsMedieval PhilosophyNatural philosophyGiles of Rome
Some remarks on Dante's "Monarchia", the so-called political Averroism, and universalism in political tought
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      Medieval HistoryDante StudiesMedieval StudiesSecularization