Guillelmus de Aragonia was known as a philosopher for his
commentary on Boethius and his works on physiognomy, oneirology,
and astronomy; he was also a physician, perhaps a personal
physician to the king of Aragon. In a time of intellectual upheaval
and civil strife, when nobility was on the verge of being defined
with legal precision as it had not been since antiquity, Guillelmus
taught that true nobility is an acquired habit, not an inborn
quality. Guillelmus wrote De nobilitate animi, "On Nobility of
Mind," around 1280-1290. Working in the recently renewed
Aristotelian tradition, he took an independent and original
approach, quoting from philosophers, astronomers, physicians,
historians, naturalists, orators, poets, and rustics pronouncing
proverbs. This edition presents the Latin text, based on six
manuscripts, three of them hitherto unknown, along with an English
translation. An introduction reviews Guillelmus's life and work,
considering his theory of nobility in the contexts of history,
philosophy, and rhetoric, and studies the authorities he quotes
with particular attention to the troubadours, lyric poets from the
area known today as the south of France. An appendix of sources and
analogues is also included.
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