Between Text and Tradition

Pietro d’Abano and the Reception of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata Physica in the Middle Ages

Pieter De Leemans (Editor), Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen (Editor),

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Series: Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 46

Category: History, History 500-1500, Literature, Translation Studies

Language: English

ISBN: 9789462700635

Publication date: July 25, 2016

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Series: Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 46

Category: History, History 500-1500, Literature, Translation Studies

Language: English

DOI: 10.11116/9789461662002

ISBN: 9789461662002

Publication date: July 25, 2016

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New insights into Pietro d’Abano’s unique approach to translations.

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.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Contributors : Joan Cadden (University of California, Davis), Gijs Coucke (KU Leuven), Béatrice Delaurenti (École des Hautes Études et Sciences Sociales – Paris), Pieter De Leemans (KU Leuven), Françoise Guichard-Tesson (KU Leuven), Danielle Jacquart (École Pratique des Hautes Études – Paris), Christian Meyer (Centre d’Études supérieures de la Renaissance – Tours), Iolanda Ventura (CNRS – Université d’Orléans)

Notes about the contributors
Maarten J.F.M. HOENEN -; Pieter DE LEEMANS Pietro d’Abano between Text and Tradition: Introduction
Danielle JACQUART Pietro d’Abano: médecin ou philosophe?
Pieter DE LEEMANS Ego, Petrus Paduanus, philosophie minimus alumpnorum. Pietro d’Abano’s Preface to his Expositio Problematum Aristotilis
Joan CADDEN Sex and Sensibilities in the Medieval Problemata Tradition: Pietro d’Abano and His Readers
Gijs COUCKE From Abstinence to Promiscuity: Men, Beasts and Eunuchs in the Expositio Problematum of Pietro d’Abano
Béatrice DELAURENTI La compassion selon Pietro d’Abano: contamination et action à distance
Christian MEYER Entre musique et philosophie de la nature: le défi de la section XIX des Problemata Physica aristotéliciens
Iolanda VENTURA Botany, Dietetics, and Pharmacy in Pietro d’Abano’s Expositio Problematum: On Sections XX, XXI, and XXII
Françoise GUICHARD-TESSON Pietro d’Abano traduit et recyclé par Évrart de Conty

Index codicum manu scriptorum
Index nominum

Pieter De Leemans

Pieter De Leemans is professor at the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy (KU Leuven) and academic secretary of the Aristotles Latinus. - Hoger Instituut van Wijsbegeerte, KU Leuven

Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen

Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen, professor of philosophy, is Vice Rector of the University of Basel. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on the history of late medieval philosophy and theology.

Les huit contributions sont toutes très intéressantes, notamment l’édition critique de la courte préface de Pietro et le long article de Gijs Coucke « From abstinence to Promiscuity » qui, en comparant Pietro à deux autres médecins sur le problème dela diététique sexuelle, montre que Pietro est moins original qu’il y paraît. Pierre PELLEGRIN, Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, 2019/4 Tome 144, https://www.cairn.info/revue-philosophique-2019-4-page-511.htm

Intelligemment conçu et réalisé, cet ouvrage collectif permet d’avoir un aperçu global et synthétique sur l’activité philosophique, astrologique et médicale de Pietro d’Abano, plus particulièrement sur son 'Expositio Problematum Aristotilis'.
M. Cacouros, Scriptorium 2019/2

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