Expositio super primo et secundo «De partibus animalium»

Both a document of Pomponazzi’s final teaching and the first 16th c. commentary on a biological work of Aristotle, this «Expositio super de partibus animalium» (1521-23), here edited for the first time, is at the cross-roads between exploration of the Stagirite’s philosophy of nature and the desire to denounce its shortcomings. These lecture notes capture ‘live’ Pomponazzi’s irreverent and paradoxical teaching, expressed in a Latin which combines scholastic jargon and vernacular overtones (sometimes pushed to obscene language).

Pietro Pomponazzi

Stefano Perfetti
Stefano Perfetti, ricercatore presso il Dipartimento di Filosofia dell’Università di Pisa, si occupa della tradizione aristotelica tra Medioevo e Rinascimento, in special modo della ricezione dei trattati de animalibus, della trasformazione delle tecniche di commento universitario e del rapporto tra ermeneutica scolastica e filologia umanistica. Oltre a saggi comparsi su riviste specializzate, è autore di Aristotle’s Zoology and its Renaissance Commentators (1521-1601), Leuven University Press, Leuven 2000.
Stefano Perfetti is researcher at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pisa. His interests range over the Aristotelian tradition in late Middle Ages and Renaissance, the transformation of commentary techniques, and the relationship beteween scholasticism and humanist philology. He has written several articles and the monograph Aristotle’s Zoology and its Renaissance Commentators (1521-1601), Leuven University Press, Leuven 2000.

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