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Aristoteles. Nicolai Leonici Thomaei Conversio... explanatio primi libri Aristotelis de partibus animalium..., Venice, Giovanni Farri & fratres, 1540.
First edition of the Conversio, with a dedicatory prologue by N. Leonicus addressed to Cardinal Raynaldo Polo. Nicolaus Leonicus Thomaeus, of Epirot origins, was born inVenice (1456-1531). According to P. Bembo his lectures open a new chapter in the history of European philosophy, leading to the neo-Aristotelianism of P. Pomponazzi and C. Cremonini. His first printed work dates to 1523: Pavra naturalia, Omnia in Latinum... (Venice).
: 15,5 cm
: lv. [63]+1 blank
: BH I/3 (393) • PAP I, 798 • ΦΕ, 156/7 (62)
: Renaissance – Humanism
: Book