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Chrysostomus Javelli's Epitome of Aristotle's Liber de Bona Fortuna: Examining Fortune in Early Modern Italy

Chrysostomus Javelli's Epitome of Aristotle's Liber de Bona Fortuna: Examining Fortune in Early Modern Italy

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ISBN10: 9004416153
ISBN13: 9789004416154
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 12 2021
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In this book, Valérie Cordonier and Tommaso De Robertis provide the first study, along with edition and translation, of Chrysostomus Javelli's epitome of the Liber de bona fortuna (1531), the famous thirteenth-century Latin compilation of the chapters on fortune taken from Aristotle's Magna Moralia and Eudemian Ethics. An Italian university professor and a prominent figure in the intellectual landscape of sixteenth-century Europe, Javelli (ca. 1470-ca. 1542) commented on nearly the entirety of Aristotle's corpus. His epitome of the Liber de bona fortuna, the only known Renaissance reading produced on this work, offers an unparalleled insight into the early modern understanding of fortune, standing out as one of the most comprehensive witnesses to discussions on fate, fortune, and free will in the Western world.

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