Between text and tradition : Pietro d'Abano and the reception of pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica in the Middle Ages / edited by Pieter De Leemans and Maarten J. F. M. Hoenen.
Publisher:
Leuven University Press,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
xvi, 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
"The essays in the volume were prepared at several seminars organized at the University of Leuven and at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau"--Page xvi. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Pierto d'Abano between text and tradition : introduction / Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen, Pieter de Leemans -- Pietro d'Abano : médecin ou philosophe? / Danielle Jacquart -- Ego, Petrus Paduanus, philosophie minimus alumpnorum : Pietro d'Abano's preface to his Expositio problematum Aristotilis / Pieter de Leemans -- Sex and sensibilities in the medieval Problemata tradition : Pietro d'Abano and his readers / Joan Cadden -- From abstinence to promiscuity : men, beasts and eunuchs in the Expositio problematum of Pietro d'Abano / Gijs Coucke -- La compassion selon Pietro d'Abano : contamination et action à distance / Béatrice Delaurenti -- Entre musique et philosophie de la nature : le défi de la section XIX des Problemata physica aristotéliciens / Christian Meyer -- Botany, dietetics, and pharmacy in Pietro d'Abano's Expositio problematum : on sections XX, XXI, and XXII / Iolanda Ventura -- Pietro d'Abano traduit et recyclé par Évrart de Conty / Françoise Guichard-Tesson.
Summary:
The commentary of the Italian physician and philosopher Pietro d'Abano on Bartholomew of Messina's Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's 'Problemata Physica', published in 1310, constitutes an important historical source. In a section of the corpus Aristotelicum that was not part of the standard curriculum at the medieval university, the commentary of Pietro d'Abano investigates the complex relationship between text, translation, and commentary. The eight articles in this volume provide valuable insights into the manner in which Pietro d'Abano deals with the problems of a translated text. They emphasize the idiosyncrasy of his approach in comparison to his contemporaries and successors, the particularities of his commentary in light of the habitual exegetical practices applied in the teaching of curricular texts, as well as the influence of philosophical traditions outside the strict framework of the medieval arts faculty.
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