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Two Aristotelians of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Two Aristotelians of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia and Agostino Nifo (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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This volume deals with the psychological, metaphysical and
scientific ideas of two major and influential Aristotelian
philosophers of the Italian Renaissance - Nicoletto Vernia (d.
1499) and Agostino Nifo (ca 1470-1538) - whose careers must be seen
as inter-related. Both began by holding Averroes to be the true
interpreter of Aristotle's thought, but were influenced by the work
of humanists, such as Ermolao Barbaro, though to a different
degree. Translations of the Greek commentators on Aristotle
(Alexander of Aphrodisias, Themistius and Simplicius) provided them
with new material and new ways of understanding Aristotle - Nifo
even put himself to learning Greek - and led them to abandon
Averroes, especially as regards his views on the soul and
intellect. Nevertheless, both Vernia and Nifo engaged seriously
with the thought of medieval scholars such as Albert the Great,
Thomas Aquinas and John of Jandun. Both also showed interest in
their celebrated contemporary, Marsilio Ficino.
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