This book presents an edition of the Questiones super libro De
Animalibus Aristotelis, a work by one of the greatest philosophers
and physicians of the 13th century, Peter of Spain (later Pope John
XXI, 1205-1277). He took as the basis for his work the translation
from the Arabic made in Toledo around 1220 by Michael Scotus which
included three important Aristotelian treatises. Preceding the
critical edition, Dr Navarro offers an introduction to the person
and works of Peter of Spain, the intellectual context of the 13th
century characterized by Scholasticism and an Aristotelian
Renaissance, and a short analysis of the linguistics and form of
the Questiones. She also analyses the sources on which Peter drew,
Greco-Latin, Arabo-Jewish and, of course, late antique and medieval
treatises, showing that the text was not exclusively zoological in
nature, but discusses important medical and philosophical topics,
illustrating his extensive knowledge of both the Aristotelian
corpus and 13th-century medicine. The text (divided into XIX books)
is not a mere commentary about animals, but rather, as the title
shows, a collection of questions in the Salernitan manner, the use
of which was considered most appropriate for analysis and
communication in the medieval scientific community to which Peter
of Spain belonged. Alongside methodological and zoological
problems, Peter of Spain discusses important questions disputed
among the scholars of the period, including the location,
hierarchy, motion, function and parts of the principal organs, the
five senses, and many other medical issues such as reproduction,
illnesses, or growth. Finally Dr Navarro includes a glossary that
contains proper names (mainly those of the authorities and sources
quoted by Petrus Hispanus), animal names (and their parts and
substances), and the names of plants, metals, and the like.
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