Luca Bianchi

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Il Saggiatore alla ‘Statale’ di Milano: da Banfi a Dal Pra digital

Anno: 2024

This article reconstructs the different interpretations of Galileo’s thought, and notably of The Assayer, proposed by Antonio Banfi, Ludovico Geymonat and Mario Dal Pra. Using unpublished notes prepared by the latter for a course held at the State University of Milan in 1961-62, it shows how Dal Pra avoided superimposing on Galileo’s thought those ideological and political concerns that can instead be found in the biographies of Galileo written by Banfi and Geymonat, which were both strongly conditioned by the cultural climate of the Second World War, and of the post-war period.

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A Fifteenth-Century Neglected Florilegium. Teofilo Ferrari’s Propositiones ex omnibus Aristotelis libris philosophie excerpte digital

di Luca Bianchi

Anno: 2016

Published in Venice in 1493, the Propositiones ex omnibus Aristotelis libris philosophie excerpte are an original but neglected collection of Aristotelian sayings. Authored by the Dominican friar Teofilo Ferrari (and completed by his brother Benedetto da Soncino), this collection is part of a larger publishing project inspired by Domenico Grimani and Antonio Pizzamano, two outstanding Venice patricians who supported the renewal of Aristotelianism and of Thomism, but were also interested in the growth of humanism...

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