David Lines

The University of Warwick · Department of Italian

This article uses various documents in Bologna's Biblioteca Universitaria to explore the strategies that Ulisse Aldrovandi used in relation to acquiring books and keeping them in order. The first section is devoted to the physical arrangement of the Bolognese scholar's library in his home, where it sat in contiguous spaces to his natural museum. Th...

Two approaches to the teaching of ethics Renaissance humanists are known for the interest they took in ethics and moral philosophy. Many of them may have found it hard to practice virtues such as modesty and friendship, but countless letters, treatises, and dialogues (penned by authors such as Petrarch, Leonardo Bruni, and Erasmus) testify to their...

This book focuses on the teaching program of arts and medicine at the University of Bologna in the period c. 1400-1750. Through an examination of both the university's institutional and cultural context and surviving lectures in the fields of the humanities, natural philosophy, mathematics and astronomy, medicine, and theology, it underlines the va...

Although medieval and early modern universities were hierarchical institutions, it was not always clear who held ultimate power. This was particularly the case in Bologna, where the pope and his local representative added an extra layer to that of influential city authorities such as the Senate. In normal circumstances, turf wars and jurisdictional...

This is the third and final volume of essays essays induing from the Leverhulme International Network 'Renaissance Conflict and Rivalries: Cultural Polemics in Renaissance Europe, c. 1300-c. 1650'. The overall aim of the network was to examine the various ways in which conflict and rivalries made a positive contribution to cultural production and c...

Julius Caesar Scaliger, Renaissance Reformer of Aristotelianism: A Study of His “Exotericae Exercitationes.” Kuni Sakamoto. History of Science and Medicine Library 54; Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science 26. Leiden: Brill, 2016. viii + 214 pp. $135. - Volume 70 Issue 4 - David A. Lines

Bernardo Segni was a prominent figure in the cultural landscape of Florence and an active participant in the Accademia Fiorentina in the 1540s and 1550s. He published several significant translations of and commentaries on Aristotelian works in the vernacular, attempting to match the sophistication of previous Latin interpretations, on which he hea...

Niccolò Tignosi was a physician and professor of medicine active in Tuscany (especially Florence) in the second and third quarters of the fifteenth century. More or less at the same time in which Johannes Argyropoulos began his famous activity of interpreting Aristotle there, Tignosi published a commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, which r...

In 1550 Bernardo Segni, a member of the Florentine Academy, published an Italian translation of and commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Practically unstudied, Segni’s work represents an important moment in the evolution of vernacular Aristotelianism (and philosophy more generally) in the Renaissance. This essay examines Segni’s approach t...

This article studies and contextualizes the attempts to reform the University of Bologna in the decades around 1583. On the basis of little-known documents, it shows how Rome exploited a directive of university reform from the Council of Trent to gain increasing power over the running of the studio and also the city of Bologna. The request for a re...

Aristotle's ethics are the most important in the history of Western philosophy, but little has been said about the reception of his ethics by his many successors. The present volume offers thirteen newly commissioned essays covering figures and periods from the ancient world, starting with the impact of the ethics on Hellenistic philosophy, taking...

This paper focuses on the developments experienced by natural philosophy and mathematics in Bologna during a period of rapid change in the relationship of the various disciplines in the faculty of Arts and Medicine. Insisting that university science was characterized by a greater vitality than the traditional historiography usually concedes, this e...

Like their medieval predecessors, Renaissance writers could look to a vast number of works from antiquity which were either connected with or bordered on moral philosophy. Many of the authors who were used remained the same as those cited in Geremia da Montagnone’s Compendium moralium notabilium, probably written shortly before 1310: Aristotle, Cic...

In the Italian universities, there was traditionally a strong alliance between natural philosophy and medicine, which however was all to the advantage of the latter; its teachers were better regarded and better paid than others in the faculty of Arts and Medicine, and this led to career paths that sought out the teaching of medicine as soon as poss...

This article examines the commentary on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" by Niccolò Tignosi, a medic and professor of philosophy active in Florence around the middle of the fifteenth century.

In a letter of 1404 to the Sienese professor Francesco Casini, the Italian humanist Coluccio Salutati expressed appreciation for the addressee's commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics , comparing it favorably with the Greek (XI/XII century) commentaries of Eustratius and Michael of Ephesus, and with the Latin ones of Albert the Great, Albert...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1997. Includes bibliographical references.