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BOOK REVIEWS 101 study will be in terms of this likeness, in terms of father and son. But the bottom of the is the fathering. And such relationships the analogy of proportionality does not seem well suited to bring out. So I would propose that it is possible to reconcile the view of Anderson with that of, say, Mondin, sl on the score of knowing versus getting to know. While Anderson's view is most apt to bring out the latter side, a Mondin-like one with its emphasis on efficient causality, is more apt for bringing out the former side. Such, then, are my reservations regarding this book. However, I wish to repeat that I consider Anderson's work an admirable answer to the very real call "for a basic but thorough treatment of Analogy." But since I have spent so much space on my reservations and so little on pointing out the strong points, it might well look like an attempt to damn by faint praise. Such is not the case. This imbalance was necessary, for the qualifies in this little work which deserve praise will stand securely on their own two feet, but my reservations do not have that security; they needed, I think, quite a bit of bolstering to make them credible. And even if credible, they do not in any way undermine the book. For the historical reservation is certainly not about a point central to the book, while the major one, while bearing on the very basic contention of the work, presents merely an alternative approach and one which I hope might point towards a possible reconciliation between Anderson's view and its strength and the alternative view and its strength. So I wish to insist that I think that this work provides a concise, clear, and concrete treatment of a tangled and pressing problem. I wish to insist that I find the historical illustrations extremely helpful. I would urge again that Anderson consider a sequel which would trace at least a part of the more contemporary thinking on analogy. ROBERT E. COLLINS College el St. Teresa Winona, Minnesota a: Battista Mondin, The Principle of Analogy ia Protestant and Catholic Theology (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1963), esp. pp. 69 ft. Francesco Storella: filosofo salentino del Cinquecento. By Antonio Antonaci. (Universit ~ di Bari, Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Filosofia, no. 9; Galatina: Editrice Salentins , 1966. Pp. 243) The past few years have seen the publication of a number of new and interesting studies on Italian Renaissance Aristotelianism.1 At last we are beginning to get further illumination on what is perhaps the most important, but least understood aspect of Renaissance philosophy. The popularity of Aristotle during the sixteenth century-at a time when according to most modern accounts his philosophical influence was in full decline--was quite remarkable. The recent Index Aureliensis shows that there were x For example, B. Nardi, Studi su Pierre Pomponazzi (Florence, 1965); A. Poppi, Causalii ~ e infinit~ nella scuola padovana dal 1480 al 1513 (Padua, 1966); G. Papuli, Girolamo Balduino: ricerche sulla logica della scuola di Padova nel Rinascimento (Manduria, 1967); P. O. Kristelter, Le thomisme et la pensde italienne de la Renaissance (Montreal-Paris, 1967). Much on Aristotelianism is to be found in more general studies such as W. Risse, Die Logik der Neuzeit, vol. I (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1964) and A. Crescini, Le origini del metodo analitico: il Cinquecento (Udine, 1965). Much information will be contained in the studies of H. S. Matsen (on AchiUini), E. P. Mahoney (on Nifo), and W. F. Edwards (on Zabarella) to be published in the near future. I shall publish shortly more detailed information and an extensive bibliography on this subject in my review article "Recent Studies on Renaissance Aristotelianism." 102 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY at least 1099 printings of one or another of Aristotle's works during the sixteenth century and there were also, of course, many printings of works of Aristotellan inspiration. Among the lesser known of mid-sixteenth century Aristotelians was Francesco Storella of Alessano, whose published works span the dates 1549-1576. Although he published a dozen works, left behind several important manuscripts, taught at Salerno and Naples, was a...