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Vernacular Aristotelianism in Renaissance Italy, c. 1400-c. 1650

Starting 1 October 2010, a 3-year research project at Warwick (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) is studying the Renaissance diffusion of Aristotelian works in the Italian vernacular. This initiative tries to redress the almost exclusive concentration on Latin Aristotelianism among historians of philosophy and ideas in recent decades and aims to provide an electronic census and description of all relevant materials in both manuscript and print. Furthermore, it aims to bring together historians of language, literature, philosophy, science and culture to explore how Aristotelianism increasingly reached a broad and non-Latinate public.

The project, involving a collaboration between the University of Warwick and the Warburg Institute in London, is led by Dr David Lines (Warwick, Department of Italian), with the support at Warwick of Professor Simon Gilson and, at the Warburg Institute, of Professor Jill Kraye. Professor Luca Bianchi (Vercelli), along with a distinguished group of scholars on the project's advisory board, is providing further expertise. A crucial part in the development of this project is played by the research fellow, Dr Eugenio Refini (based at Warwick), and by the PhD student, Miss Grace Allen (based at the Warburg).

Crucial seed money for exploring the topic and its feasibility was provided by Warwick's Research Development Fund, which allowed Lines and Gilson to organize an exploratory workshop in Venice in September 2007.

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22-24 March 2012

The 58th RSA Annual Meeting - Washington D.C.

The project will be sponsoring a series of panels on "Vernacular Aristotelianism in the Renaissance" at the 2012 Renaissance Society of America meeting.

Vernacular Aristotelianism in the Renaissance I - 23 March 2012, 8.45am-10.15am, Grand Hyatt, Conference Suite 8

Chair: Ingrid A. R. DE SMET (University of Warwick)

"Vernacular Readings of Aristotle in the Quattrocento: Lazzaro Gallineta's Commentary on the pseudo-aristotelian De virtute" - Eugenio REFINI (University of Warwick)

"Giovan Battista Gelli and Benedetto Varchi as Readers of Dante and Aristotle" - Simon GILSON (University of Warwick)

"Francesco Piccolomini's Moral Philosophy between Latin and the Vernacular" - David A. LINES (University of Warwick)

Vernacular Aristotelianism in the Renaissance II - 23 March 2012, 10.30am-12.00am, Grand Hyatt, Conference Suite 8

Chair: Simon GILSON (University of Warwick)

"The Plato-Aristotle Controversy in 16th Century Vernacular Philosophy: Francesco de' Vieri at the University of Pisa" - Maude VANHAELEN (University of Warwick)

"Translating Aristotelian Logic into English: Ralph Lever's Witcraft and English Vernacular Renaissance Aristotelianism" - Marco SGARBI (Università di Verona)

"French Natural Philosophy: the Case of Scipion Dupleix" - Violaine GIACOMOTTO-CHARRA (Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux 3)


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Christian Readings of Aristotle from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, ed. by Luca Bianchi (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011).

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Lire Aristote au Moyen Age et à la Renaissance. Réception du traité Sur la génération et la corruption, ed. by Joëlle Ducos and Violaine Giacomotto-Charra (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2011).

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Alison Cornish, Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy. Illiterate Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011).

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Page contact: David Lines Last revised: Mon 6 Feb 2012
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