Sapienza, prudenza, eroica virtù
Il mediomondo di Daniele Barbaro

The search for an excellent and general art, characterised by a language capable of expressing and producing any known object, brings Daniele Barbaro to reflect on Vitruvian architecture. A consideration that introduces his comment to «De Architectura» in an animated discussion of the 16th century. Through architecture Barbaro proposes a 'normal' and 'universal' knowledge, contemplative and operative, that in man - learned and active as the 'architectus' - has the rules and dimensions of its his own 'compiuta perfezione'.

Annarita Angelini
Annarita Angelini insegna Storia della filosofia del Rinascimento all’Università di Bologna. E’ autrice di saggi e volumi sul pensiero scientifico e filosofico nell’età moderna, tra i quali: L’Istituto delle scienze e l’Accademia (Il Mulino, 1993), Sapienza, Prudenza, Eroica Virtù, il mediomondo di Daniele Barbaro (Olschki, 1999), Simboli e Questioni. L’eterodossia culturale di Achille Bocchi e dell’Hermathena (Pendragon, 2003).

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